Seres armipes breviceps Wiebes

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

Seres armipes breviceps Wiebes 1961. Holotype: Natural History Museum Leiden. Type locality: Uganda.

FEMALE

Figs. 24-28. Seres armipes subspec.?, ex F. sansibarica macrosperma (Mildbr. & Burr.), female: 24, head, dorsal view; 25, maxillary palp; 26, labial palp; 27, mandible, ventral view; 28, antenna, dorsal view.

Fig. 29. Seres solweziensis van Noort, female: 29, head, dorsal view.

Figs. 30 & 31. Seres armipes breviceps Wiebes, female: 30, mandible, ventral view; 31, head, dorsal view.

Fig. 32. Seres armipes armipes Waterston, female: 32, head, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Distribution

Uganda.

Biology

Host fig: Ficus ovata Vahl

Reference

Wiebes, J.T. 1961. On the variability of Agaon paradoxum (Dalman) Grandi and Seres armipes Waterston, with remarks on other African Agaonidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden. 37:231-240.

Credits

Photographs and illustrations © 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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