Agaon paradoxum Dalman

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

Agaon paradoxum Dalman, 1818. Holotype Natural History Museum, Stockholm (NRS). Type locality: Sierre Leone.

Blastophaga villiersi Risbec, 1954. Holotype in Natural History Museum, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Senegal (synonymy by Wiebes, 1970).

Distribution

Gabon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Sierra Leone.

Biology

Host:  Ficus barteri Sparague

References

Dalman, J.W. 1818. Några nya Genera och Species af Insecter beskrifna. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. 39:69-89.

Credits

Next  genus: Alfonsiella        Next species: Agaon spatulatum

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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