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Apocrypta Coquerel

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Tribe: Otitesellini; Subtribe: Sycoryctina; Tribe: Apocryptini)

Apocrypta Coquerel 1855. Type species: Apocrypta perplexa Coquerel 1855.

Apocrypta species
 

Apocrypta acaeta Ulenberg,1985

 

Apocrypta bakeri (Joseph,1952)

 

Apocrypta brachycephala Grandi, 1916

 

Apocrypta caudata (Girault,1915)

 

Apocrypta centrocampta Ulenberg,1985

  Apocrypta cercaria Ulenberg, 1985
 

Apocrypta channingi (Girault,1913)

  Apocrypta crypta Ulenberg, 1985
 

Apocrypta ephelinata Ulenberg,1985

Apocrypta guineensis Grandi, 1916
  Apocrypta imbecillus Grandi, 1916
 

Apocrypta intermedia Ulenberg,1985

 

Apocrypta larvalis (Baker,1913)

Apocrypta longitarsus Mayr, 1906
 

Apocrypta macroseta Ulenberg,1985

 

Apocrypta mega Ulenberg,1985

 

Apocrypta megischia Ulenberg,1985

 

Apocrypta meromassa Ulenberg,1985

  Apocrypta perplexa Coquerel, 1855
  Apocrypta polyspina Ulenberg, 1985
  Apocrypta regalis Grandi, 1916
Apocrypta robusta Grandi, 1916
  Apocrypta setoptera Ulenberg, 1855
 

Apocrypta suprasegmenta Ulenberg,1985

 

Apocrypta tanyceraea Ulenberg,1985

 

Apocrypta varicolor (Mayr,1885)

 

Apocrypta westwoodi Grandi,1916

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Senegal, Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Réunion, Madagascar, South Africa, Indo-Australian: Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Holarctic: Egypt

Biology 

Hosts: Aprocryptophagus (Sycophaginae), Ceratosolen capensis (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen solmsi (Agaoninae)

Reference

Coquerel, C. 1855. Description de parasite anormaux d'un figuier de l'ile de Bourbon. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (2). 7:365-371, 422-427.

Grandi, G. 1916. Gli Agaonini (Hymenoptera Chalcididae) raccolti nell'Africa occidentale dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura, Portici. 10:121-286.

Ulenberg, S.A. 1985. The phylogeny of the genus Apocrypta Coquerel in relation to its hosts Ceratosolen Mayr (Agaonidae) and Ficus L. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweed Reeks. 83:149-176.

Ulenberg, S.A. & Pelt, W. van. 1985. A revision of the species of Apocrypta Coquerel: a taxonomic study incorporating uni- and multivariate analyses. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Reeks. 83:41-148.

Credits

Banner photograph © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria). Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA).

 

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. & Rasplus, JY. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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