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Idarnes carme Walker

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

Idarnes carme Walker, 1843. Holotype: lost, should be in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Neotype: in United States National Museum, Smithsonian (USNM).  Type locality: St. Vincent.

Distribution

Bahama, Barbados, Brazil (Santa Catarina), Costa Rica, Cuba, Grenada, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, USA (Florida).

Biology

Host fig: Ficus aurea Nuttall.

Reference

Walker, F. 1843. Descriptions of Chalcidites discovered in St. Vincent's Isle by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12: 46-49.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Next genus: Pseudidarnes

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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