Agaon taiense Wiebes

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

Agaon taiense Wiebes, 1989. Holotype female in NCB Naturalis (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie - RMNH). Type locality: Liberia.

Distribution

Liberia.

Biology

Host: Ficus tesselata Warb.

References

Wiebes, J.T. 1989. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, V. (Agaon). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 92: 395-407.

Credits

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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. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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