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Sycoscapteridea monilifer (Westwood)

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

Sycoscapter monilifer Westwood 1883. Holotype in Hope Department, Oxford University, Oxford. Type locality: India

Synonym: Idarnes orientalis 

Distribution

India (Bihar, Kerala, West Bengal), Sri Lanka

Biology

Host fig: Ficus religiosa

Reference

Westwood, J.O. 1883. Further descriptions of insects infesting figs. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 29-47, plts iv-x.

Credits

  Next genus: Sycoscapteridea

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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