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Crossogaster odorans Wiebes

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

Crossogaster odorans Wiebes 1981. Holotype: in The NCB Naturalis (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie - RMNH). Type locality: Zimbabwe
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Figs. 50 & 51. Crossogaster odorans Wiebes, ex F. stuhlmannii Warb., female: 50, head, dorsal view; 51, antenna, antiaxial view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Distribution

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Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

Host figs: Ficus burkei, Ficus stuhlmannii, Ficus craterostoma  

Reference

van Noort S., 1994a. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), III (Crossogaster). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97(1): 83-122.

Credits

Photographs and illustrations © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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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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