Pseudidarnes minerva Girault

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

Pseudidarnes minerva Girault 1927. Holotype: in Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange Agricultural Institute, Orange, New South Wales (ASCI). Type locality: Queensland: Brisbane and Lake Manchester, -27.48°, 152.76°, 67m (Australia).

Distribution

Australia.

Biology

Host fig: Ficus rubiginosa Desf. ex Vent..

References

Bouček Z., 1988. Australian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) : a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, 1-832 pp.

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

Girault, A.A. 1927. Notes on and descriptions of chalcid wasps (Chalcididae) in the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum 3:309-338.

Credits

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

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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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