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Apocrypta caudata (Girault)

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

Goniogastrella caudatus Girault, 1915. Type in Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMBA). Type locality: Gordonvale, Queensland, Australia.

 

Distribution

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Australia (Queensland), Japan, Solomon Islands.

Biology

 Host fig: unknown, but probably from figs of F. variegata (Wiebes, 1966; Ulenberg & Pelt, 1985).

References

 Girault, A.A. 1915. Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, XII. The family Callimomidae with descriptions of new genera and species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 4:275-309.

Ulenberg, S.A. 1985. The phylogeny of the genus Apocrypta Coquerel in relation to its hosts Ceratosolen Mayr (Agaonidae) and Ficus L. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Reeks. 83:149-176. 

Ulenberg, S.A. & Pelt, W. van. 1985. A revision of the species of Apocrypta Coquerel: a taxonomic study incorporating uni- and multivariate analyses. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Reeks. 83:41-148.

Credits

Photographs © 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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