Pleistodontes greenwoodi Grandi

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

Blastophaga greenwoodi Grandi 1928. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Fiji

Proceratosolens medionigra (synonym) Girault, 1933: 3-4. Holotype female in Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Type locality:

Distribution

Fiji, Australia

Biology

Host fig: Ficus obliqua Forster

References

Girault, A.A. 1933. Some beauties inhabitant not of commercial boudoirs but of natures bosom, notably new insects.  5pp. Brisbane, private publication.

Grandi, G. 1928. Due species di Blastophaga dell isole Figi ed istituzione di un nuovo sottogenere. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia del R.Istituto Superiore Agrario di Bologna. 1:65-70.

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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