Seres silvestrii

Seres silvestrii (Grandi)

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

Crossogaster silvestrii Grandi 1916. Holotype in Instituto di Entomologia 'Giudo Grandi', Bologna Type locality: Senegal

Crossogaster atratus Masi 1917 (synonymy by van Noort 1994a).

Combination by Cruaud et al. (2013).

Distribution	Recorded from Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar, Comoros Islands, Seychelles, Aldabra, but likely to occur throughout the range of the host fig (light green area).
Biology	Host fig: Ficus lutea Vahl.
References	Cruaud A, Underhill JG, Huguin M, Genson G, Jabbour-Zahab R, Tolley KA, Rasplus JY, van Noort S. 2013. A Multilocus Phylogeny of the World Sycoecinae Fig Wasps (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). PLoS ONE 8(11): e79291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079291 van Noort, S. 1994a. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), IV (Philocaenus, in part). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 97: 311-339. van Noort, S. 1994b. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), V (Philocaenus, concluded; generic key; checklist). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97: 341-375.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)
	Next genus: Sycoecus Next species: Seres solweziensis

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>).