Elisabethiella comptoni Wiebes

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

Elisabethiella comptoni Wiebes 1989. Holotype in NCB Naturalis (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie - RMNH). Type locality: Malawi.

Female

South Africa (Kruger National Park, Mopani Camp). Photographs © Alan Manson (Pietermaritzburg).

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35199342

Male

South Africa (Kruger National Park, Mopani Camp). Photographs © Alan Manson (Pietermaritzburg).

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35199341 and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35206154

Distribution

Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: Ficus abutilifolia (Miq.) Miq.

References

Wiebes, J.T. 1989. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae) : fig wasp and their figs, III. (Elisabethiella). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 92: 117-136.  

Credits

Photographs © Alan Manson (Pietermaritzburg), or photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Next genus: Eupristina        Next species: Elisabethiella enriquesi

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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