Otitesella rotunda van Noort

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Tribe: Otitesellini; Genus: Otitesella)

OtItesella rotunda van Noort, 1997 (in van Noort & Rasplus). Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa.

Distribution

Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tanzania.

Biology

Host: Ficus ingens (Miq.) Miq.

Reference

van Noort, S. & Rasplus, J.Y. 1997. Revision of the otiteselline fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae), I : Otitesella digitata species-group of the Afrotropical region, with a key to Afrotropical species of Otitesella Westwood. African Entomology, 5(1): 125-145.

Credits

Photographs, line and map 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. 2025. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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