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Walkerella microcarpae Bouček

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

Walkerella microcarpae Bouček, 1993. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Florida, U.S.A.

Distribution

Bermuda, Brazil, Cayman Islands, China, Japan, Spain, South Africa, USA.

Biology

Host plants:  Ficus microcarpa (Moraceae).

References

Beardsley, J.W. 1998. Chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) associated with fruit of Ficus microcarpa in Hawai’i. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 33, 19–34.

Bouček, Z. 1993. The genera of chalcidoid wasps from Ficus fruit in the New World. Journal of Natural History 27: 173-217.

van Noort, S., Wang, R. & Compton, S.G. 2013. Fig wasps (Hymenoptera; Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) associated with Asian fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) in Southern Africa: Asian followers and African colonistsAfrican Invertebrates 54: 381–400.

Wang R, Aylwin R, Barwell L, Chen X-Y, Chen Y, Chou L-S, Cobb J, Collette D, Craine L, Giblin-Davis RM, Ghana S, Harper M, Harrison RD, McPherson JR, Peng YQ, Pereira RAS, Reyes-Betancort A, Rodriguez LJV, Strange E, van Noort S, Yang H-W, Yu H, Compton SG. 2015. The fig wasp followers and colonists of a widely introduced fig tree, Ficus microcarpa. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi: 10.1111/icad.12111

Credits

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

Next genus: Ficicola (Pteromalinae)       Next species: Walkerella sp.

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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