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Otitesella
africana species-group
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Otitesella
africana Grandi, 1921
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Otitesella
epicarioides Grandi, 1921
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Otitesella
gnaphalocarpae Risbec, 1951
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Otitesella
royi Wiebes, 1971
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Otitesella
sesquianellata van Noort, 1988
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Otitesella
tsamvi Wiebes, 1981
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Otitesella
uluzi Compton, 1988
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Otitesella
digitata species-group
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Otitesella
ako Ishii,1934
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Otitesella
amplipennis Girault,1915
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Otitesella
clarae Wiebes,1974
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Otitesella
compressiventris Girault,1915
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Otitesella
digitata
Westwood,1883
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Otitesella
minima
Joseph,1957
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Otitesella
longicauda van Noort, 1997 |
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Otitesella
nefdti van Noort, 1997 |
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Otitesella
pseudoserrata van Noort, 1997
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Otitesella
rotunda van Noort, 1997 |
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Otitesella
serrata Mayr, 1885 |
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Otitesella
swezeyi Fullaway,1946
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Otitesella
tsjahelae Priyadarsanan, 2000
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Distribution
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Afrotropical region:
Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, Ethiopa, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Tanzania,
Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierre Leone, South Africa, UAE, Yemen, Zambia,
Zimbabwe.
Indo-Australian region: Australia, Guam, India, Japan,
Philippines, Sri Lanka. |
Biology
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Phytophagous gallers of ovule (external oviposition). |
References
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Girault,
A.A. 1915. Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea - XIII. The family Agaonidae with
descriptions of new (genera and) species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.
4:310-313.
Jousseline, E., van Noort, S., Rasplus J.Y.,
& Greeff, J. 2006.
Patterns of diversification of afrotropical otiteselline fig wasps:
phylogenetic study reveals a double radiation across host figs and
conservatism of host association. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology
19: 253-266.
Westwood,
J.O. 1883. Further descriptions of insects infesting figs. Transactions of
the Entomological Society of London 1883: 29-47, plts iv-x.
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Credits
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Illustrations and photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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