Fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) associated with Asian fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) in southern Africa: Asian followers and African colonists: Insecta: Hymenoptera

Van Noort, Simon; Wang, Rong; Compton, Stephen G

Title: Fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) associated with Asian fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) in southern Africa: Asian followers and African colonists: Insecta: Hymenoptera
Creator: Van Noort, Simon
Creator: Wang, Rong
Creator: Compton, Stephen G
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2013
Date: 2013
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/479048
Identifier: vital:78255
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC143130
Description: The Asian and Indo-Australasian fig tree species Ficus microcarpa and F. religiosa are widely-planted street and garden ornamentals in southern Africa and elsewhere. Like other fig trees, they depend for pollination on host specific fig wasps (Agaonidae). Their pollinators have also been widely introduced, and this allows the trees to become naturalised weeds. Both trees also support numerous non-pollinating fig wasps that can reduce seed or pollinator numbers, and a sub-set of these assemblages also now have wide distributions outside their native range. Two South African pollinators (Elisabethiella baijnathi, E. stuckenbergi), a galler (Otitesella uluzi) and a parasitoid (Sycoryctes species) occasionally succeed in reproducing in the figs of F. microcarpa, but in very small numbers.
Format: 20 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: African Invertebrates
Relation: Van Noort, S., Wang, R. and Compton, S.G., 2013. Fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) associated with Asian fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) in southern Africa: Asian followers and African colonists: Insecta: Hymenoptera. African Invertebrates, 54(2), pp.381-400
Relation: African Invertebrates volume 54 number 2 381 400 2013 2305-2562
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