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Crossogaster quadrata van Noort

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

Crossogaster quadrata van Noort 1994. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: South Africa

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Figs. 33 & 34. Crossogaster quadrata van Noort, female: 33, head, dorsal view; 34, fore tibia and first tarsal segment. Scale bars = 0.1 mm. Figs. 52 & 53. Crossogaster quadrata van Noort, male: 52, mandible, dorsal view; 53, head, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Distribution

Crossogaster quadrata_map

South Africa

Biology

Host fig: Ficus glumosa Delile

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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