Grandiana wassae Wiebes 

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

Grandiana wassae Wiebes 1961. Holotype: Type locality: Papua New Guinea

Distribution

Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu

Biology

Host: Ficus wassa  

Reference

Wiebes, J.T. 1961. Indomalayan and papuan fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), I. Grandiana wassae nov. gen., nov. spec. (Idarninae) with remarks on the classification of Sycophaginae. Nova Guinea (Zoology). 14:245-252.

Credits

Next genus: Grandiana              Next species: Grasseiana boschami

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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