Platyscapa soraria Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Platyscapa)

Platyscapa soraria Wiebes, 1980 (in Wiebes & Abdurahim, 1980). Holotype in NCB Naturalis (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie - RMNH). Type locality: Zambia.

        Male habitus.

                                Male dorsal view.

Line drawing by JT Wiebes, 1980.

Distribution

Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, but probably also present in the remaining Distributional area (lighter colour) of the host fig.

Biology

References

Wiebes J.T. & Abdurahim U.C. 1980. Additional notes on Platyscapa Motschoulsky (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet. Ser. C 83:195–207.

Credits

Photographs & top illustrations © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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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