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Philotrypesis Förster 

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

Philotrypesis Förster, 1878. Type species: Philotrypesis longicaudata Mayr, 1906.

Philotrypesis species ex F. abutilifolia
Philotrypesis species ex F. artocarpoides

Philotrypesis species ex F. burtt-davyi

Philotrypesis species ex F. dicranostyla

Philotrypesis species 1 UAE
Philotrypesis species 2 UAE
Philotrypesis species 3 UAE
Philotrypesis species 4 UAE

 

Philotrypesis affinis (Westwood, 1883)

 

Philotrypesis africana Grandi, 1921

 

Philotrypesis angela (Girault, 1915)

 

Philotrypesis anguliceps (Westwood, 1883)

 

Philotrypesis aterrima (Saunders, 1883)

 

Philotrypesis bakeri (Wiebes, 1966)

 

Philotrypesis bimaculata Mayr, 1885

 

Philotrypesis breviventris Abdurahiman & Joseph, 1968

Philotrypesis caricae (Linnaeus, 1762)

 

Philotrypesis cnephaea Wiebes, 1982

 

Philotrypesis distillatoria Grandi, 1926

 

Philotrypesis dunia Joseph, 1954

  Philotrypesis emeryi Grandi, 1926

 

Philotrypesis erythraea Grandi, 1921

  Philotrypesis ficicola Ashmead, 1905

 

Philotrypesis finitimorum Wiebes, 1971

  Philotrypesis grandii Wiebes, 1966

 

Philotrypesis indica (Abdurahiman & Joseph, 1976)

  Philotrypesis jacobsoni Grandi, 1926

 

Philotrypesis javae Girault, 1919

 

Philotrypesis josephi Nair, Abdurahiman & Joseph, 1982

 

Philotrypesis longicaudata Mayr, 1906

 

Philotrypesis longicornis Grandi, 1921

 

Philotrypesis longispinosa Joseph, 1954

 

Philotrypesis longiventris Girault, 1915

 

Philotrypesis marginalis Priyadarsanan, 2000

  Philotrypesis minuta Mayr, 1885

 

Philotrypesis nervosa Priyadarsanan, 2000

  Philotrypesis okinavensis Ishii, 1934

 

Philotrypesis palmata Joseph, 1954

Philotrypesis parca Wiebes, 1981

 

Philotrypesis pilosa Mayr, 1906

  Philotrypesis quadrisetosa (Westwood, 1883)

 

Philotrypesis selenitica Grandi, 1921

  Philotrypesis silvensis Girault, 1915

 

Philotrypesis similis Baker, 1913

  Philotrypesis spinipes Mayr, 1885

 

Philotrypesis taiwanensis Chen, 1999

  Philotrypesis thompsoni Grandi, 1926

 

Philotrypesis transiens (Walker, 1871)

  Philotrypesis tridentata Joseph, 1954

 

Philotrypesis tristis Grandi, 1926

 

Philotrypesis unispinosa Mayr, 1906

Distribution

 

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Afrotropical: Guinea, Sierre Leone, Eritrea, Réunion, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Indo-Australian: Australia, Borneo, Caucasus, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papa New Guinea, Philippines,Sri Lanka, Taiwan, USSR-Central Asia, Vietnam, Holarctic:  France, Israel, Italy, USSR

Biology 

Hosts: Blastophaga (Agaoninae), Blastophaga psenes (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen dentifer (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen notus (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen solmsi (Agaoninae), Eupristina verticillata (Agaoninae), Kradibia brownii (Agaoninae), Kradibia gestroi (Agaoninae), Platyscapa quadraticeps (Agaoninae)

Reference

 

Förster, A. 1878. Kleine monographien parasitischer Hymenopteren. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn. 35:42-82.

Mayr, G. 1906. Neue Feigen-Insekten. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 25:153-187. 

Kjellberg, F. and Lesne A. 2020. Ficus carica and its pollination. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02516888

Kjellberg, F. van Noort, S, Rasplus JY. In press. Fig wasp and pollination. In Sarkhosh, L. Ferguson, A.M. Yavari (Editors): The Fig: Botany, Production and Uses. CAB International.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA), or © Alan Manson (Pietermaritzburg).

 

Next genus: Adiyodiella (Sycoryctini)

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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