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Pseudidarnes astridae Farache & Rasplus

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

Pseudidarnes astridae Farache & Rasplus, 2014. Holotype: in Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montpellier, France (CBGP). Type locality: East New Britain: Raunsepna, North Baining Mountains, –4.433°, 151.783°, 1000m  (Papa New Guinea).
Holotype female
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Pseudidarnes_astridae_female
Paratype male
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Pseudidarnes_astridae_male

Distribution

Pseudidarnes flavicollis_map

Papua New Guinea.

Biology

Host fig: Ficus xylosycia (Diels).

Reference

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

Credits

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

Next genus: Sycophaga                      

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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