Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, King Khalid University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
*Email: dzubair@gmail.com
Online published on 26 December, 2014.
This study focuses on fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) occurrence on Ficus salicifolia in Saudi Arabia. Ceratosolen sp. near racimosa; Philotrypesis near breviventris Abd.& Joseph; Otitesella sp. near digitata Westwood; and Sycoscapter sp.near amplissima Narendran are recorded for the first time from Saudi Arabia. Notes pertaining to distribution, biology, and systematic of each species are also provided in the present study.
Fig wasp, HymenopteraChalcidoidea, Agaonidae, Pteromelidae, Ficus salicifolia Saudi Arabia
