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Otitesellina Joseph

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

Otitesellinae Joseph, 1964

Classification

Comptoniella_vannoorti

Comptoniella Wiebes 1992

 

Eujacobsonia Grandi, 1923

 

Gaudalia Wiebes, 1967

 

Grandiana Wiebes, 1961

 

Grasseiana Abdurahiman & Joseph, 1967

Lipothymus Grandi, 1921

 

Marginalia Priyadarsanan, 2000

Micranisa_ralianga

Micranisa Walker, 1875

 

Micrognathophora Grandi, 1921

Otitesella

Otitesella Westwood, 1883

 

Philosycus Wiebes, 1969

 

Philosycella Abdurahiman & Joseph, 1976

Walkerella Westwood, 1883

Distribution

Old World: Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian, and southern Palearctic regions.

Biology

 

Host fig species: Ficus species in Subgenus Urostigma (Sections Urostigma; Stilpnophyllum; Galoglychia) Subgenus Pharmacosycea (Section Oreosycea); Subgenus Sycomorus (Section Sycocarpus); Subgenus Sycidium (Section Sycidium).

References

 

Burks R, Mitroiu M-D, Fusu L, Heraty JM, Janšta P, Heydon S, Papilloud ND-S, Peters RS, Tselikh EV, Woolley JB, van Noort S, Baur H, Cruaud A, Darling C, Haas M, Hanson P, Krogmann L, Rasplus J-Y. 2022. From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach to rendering Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera) monophyletic. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94:13-88. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263

Cruaud A, Rasplus J-Y, Zhang J, Burks R, Delvare G, Fusu L, Gibson GAP, Gumovsky A, Hanson P, Huber JT, Janšta P, Mitroiu M-D, Noyes JS, van Noort S, Baker A, Böhmová J, Baur H, Blaimer BB, Brady1 SG, Bubeníková K, Chartois M, Copeland RS, Dale-Skey Papilloud N, Dal Molin A, Darling C, Dominguez C, Fisher N, Gates MW, Gebiola M, Guerrieri E, Haas M, Hansson C, Heydon S, Kresslein RL, Krogmann L, Moriarty Lemmon E, Mottern J, Murray E, Nidelet S, Nieves Aldrey JL, Perry R, Peters RS, Pinto JD, Polaszek A, Sauné L, Schmidt S, Torréns J, Triapitsyn S, Tselikh EV, Ubaidillah R, Yoder M, Lemmon A, Woolley JB, Heraty JM. In press. The Chalcidoidea bush of life–a massive radiation blurred by mutational saturation. Systematic Entomology https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.11.507458

Joseph, K.J. 1964. A proposed revision of the classification of the fig insects of the families Agaonidae and Torymidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B). 33: 63-66.

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.

Next genus: Ficicola (Pteromalinae)  

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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