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Platyscapa Motschoulsky

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

Platyscapa Motschoulsky, 1863. Type species: Platyscapa frontalis Motschulsky, 1863.

Classification

Platyscapa awekei Wiebes, 1977

 

Platyscapa arnottiana Abdurahiman,1980

 

Platyscapa bergi Wiebes, 1986

 

Platyscapa corneri Wiebes,1980

 

Platyscapa coronata (Grandi,1928)

 

Platyscapa binghami Wiebes, 1980

Platyscapa desertorum Compton, 1990

 

Platyscapa etiennei Wiebes, 1977

 

Platyscapa fischeri Wiebes,1977

Platyscapa frontalis Motschulsky,1863

 

Platyscapa hsui Chen & Chou,1997

 

Platyscapa indica Priyadarsanan & Abdurahiman,1997

 

Platyscapa innumerabilis (Fullaway,1913)

 

Platyscapa ishiiana (Grandi,1923)

 

Platyscapa paschimaghatensis Priyadarsanan & Abdurahiman,1997

Platyscapa quadraticeps (Mayr,1885)

 

Platyscapa sahiana Priyadarsanan & Abdurahiman,1997

 

Platyscapa tjahela (Abdurahiman & Joseph,1975)

Platyscapa soraria Wiebes, 1980

Distribution

 

 

Platyscapa_map

Afrotropical region: Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Réunion, South Africa, Zambia. Oriental region: French Polynesia, Guam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan. Palaearctic region: China, Iraq, Israel, Japan, United Arab Emirates.

Biology

Pollinators of Ficus species belonging to Subsections Conosycea and Urostigma (Section Urostigma; Subgenus Urostigma).

References

Motschulsky, V. de. 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'Ile Ceylon (Suite). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody (Otdel Biologicheskiy). 36(3):1-153.

van Noort, S. & Rasplus, J.Y. 2010. Order Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea associated with figs (families Agaonidae & Pteromalidae). In: A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod fauna of UAE 3, pp 325-355.

van Noort, S., Wang, R. & Compton, S.G. 2013. Fig wasps (Hymenoptera; Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) associated with Asian fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) in Southern Africa: Asian followers and African colonistsAfrican Invertebrates 54: 381–400.

Wang R, Aylwin R, Barwell L, Chen X-Y, Chen Y, Chou L-S, Cobb J, Collette D, Craine L, Giblin-Davis RM, Ghana S, Harper M, Harrison RD, McPherson JR, Peng YQ, Pereira RAS, Reyes-Betancort A, Rodriguez LJV, Strange E, van Noort S, Yang H-W, Yu H, Compton SG. 2015. The fig wasp followers and colonists of a widely introduced fig tree, Ficus microcarpa. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi: 10.1111/icad.12111

Credits

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

Next genus:  Pleistodontes

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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