Comptoniella Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Tribe: Otitesellini)

Comptoniella Wiebes 1992 (in Berg & Wiebes 1992). Type species: Comptoniella vannoorti  Wiebes

Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes, 1992

Distribution

Namibia and South Africa, but probably also present in the remaining Distributional area (lighter colour) of the host fig (Angola)

Biology

Reference

Berg, C.C. & Wiebes, J.T. 1992. African fig trees and fig wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam, 1-298 pp.

Credits

Photos Simon van Noort © Iziko South African Museum

Next genus:  Eujacobsonia

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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