(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Tribe: Otitesellini; Subtribe: Sycoecina; Genus: Crossogaster)
Crossogaster lachaisei van Noort 1994. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Ivory Coast
Figs. 13-16. Crossogaster lachaisei van Noort, female: 13, head, dorsal view; 14, head, ventral view; 15, mandible, ventral view; 16, antenna, antiaxial view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.
Ivory Coast, but potentially present throughout the range of the host fig (light green area).
Host fig: Ficus sansibarica macrosperma (Mildbr. & Burret) Berg
van Noort S., 1994a. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), III (Crossogaster). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97(1): 83-122.
Photographs and illustrations © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
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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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