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Pseudidarnes acaudus Farache & Rasplus

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

Pseudidarnes acaudus Farache & Rasplus, 2014. Holotype: in Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montpellier, France (CBGP). Type locality: Crater Mountain, – 6.58°, 145.08°, 2000m (Papa New Guinea).


Holotype female
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Pseudidarnes_acaudus

Distribution

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Papua New Guinea.

Biology

Associated with an undetermined Ficus species collected in Papua New Guinea. Reared together with Pseudidarnes laevis, but less abundant than the later.

Reference

Farache, F.H.A. & Rasplus, J.Y. 2014. Revision of the Australasian genus Pseudidarnes Girault, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Sycophaginae). Zookeys 404: 31-70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.404.7204

Credits

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

Next genus: Sycophaga                      

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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