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Otitesella tsjahelae Priyadarsanan

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

Otitesella swezeyi Priyadarsanan 2000. Holotype: in Department of Zoology, Kerala. Type locality: Kerala, India

Distribution

 

Otitesella tsjahelae_map

India.

Biology

Host plant: Ficus tsjahela (Moraceae)

Reference

Priyadarsanan, D.R. 2000. Fig insects of Kerala. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper. No 182:iv+175pp.

Credits

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

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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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