African Arthropods/Arthropods on ''Ficus burkei''
Appearance
Fig Wasps
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Elisabethiella stueckenbergi, the pollinator of Ficus burkei
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Female Otitesella tsamvi ovipositing into a syconium of Ficus burkei
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Male Otitesella tsamvi on a syconium of Ficus burkei
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Philotrypesis parca
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Male Seres barbarus
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Female Seres barbarus attempting to enter a Ficus burkei syconium
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Sycoscapter cornutus ovipositing into a syconium of Ficus burkei
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Watshamiella alata ovipositing into a syconium of Ficus burkei
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Sycophila sp.
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Sycophila sp.
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Lachaisea brevimucro
Beetles
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Harmonia axyridis
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Microfreudea cyclica
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Sciobius pullus
True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies (Order Hemiptera)
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A homotomid psylloid; Pseudoeriopsylla sp.
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Mating pair of Uhlunga typica with eggs.
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Aphids; Greenidea sp.
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Adult leaf-rolling psylloids, Pauropsylla sp. (Triozidae) on a Ficus burkei leaf.
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An emerging leaf-rolling psylloid, Pauropsylla sp. (Triozidae) with a recently emerged adult
Moths and butterflies
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Myrina silenus (Common fig tree blue)
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Myrina dermaptera (Caterpillar of the lesser fig tree blue)
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Naroma varipes mating pair
Thrips
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Tube-tailed thrips (Family Phlaeothripidae)
Spiders
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Female Vicirionessa mustela