Anidarnes brevicauda Bouček

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Sycophaginae, Genus: Anidarnes)

Anidarnes brevicauda Bouček 1993. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: San Pedro de Montes de Oca, 1100 m, Costa Rica.

Distribution

Cost Rica.

Biology

Host fig: Ficus costaricana (Liebmann) Miquel.

References

Bouček, Z. 1993. The genera of Chalcidoid wasps from Ficus fruit in the New World. Journal of Natural History, 27: 173-217.

Farache FHA, Cruaud A, Genson G, Pereira RAS, & Rasplus J-Y. 2013. Taxonomic revision and molecular phylogeny of the fig wasp genus Anidarnes Bouček, 1993 (Hymenoptera, Sycophaginae). Systematic Entomology 38: 14–34. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00644.x

Credits

Photographs © Fernando Farache (Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montpellier, France).

Next genus: Eukoebelea Ashmead, 1904.

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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