Female A. guineensis wasp on Ficus sur showing elongate external ovipositor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Suborder:
Apocrita
Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea
Family:
Pteromalidae
Subfamily:
Pteromalinae
Tribe:
Otitesellini
Genus:
Apocrypta
Coquerel, 1855
Type species
Apocrypta perplexa
Coquerel, 1855
Species
See text
Apocrypta is an Old World genus of parasitic fig wasps in the family Pteromalidae. They are parasitoids of gall-wasps in the Sycophagini tribe, and especially Ceratosolen species, pollinators of the Sycomorus, Sycocarpus and Neomorphe sections of Ficus.[1] They seem to be fig species-specific.[1]
^ abZhen, Wen-Quan; Huang, Da-Wei; Xiao, Jin-Hua; Yang, Da-Rong; Zhu, Chao-Dong; Xiao, Hui (April 2005). "Ovipositor length of threeApocrypta species: Effect on oviposition behavior and correlation with syconial thickness" (PDF). Phytoparasitica. 33 (2): 113–120. Bibcode:2005Phyto..33..113Z. doi:10.1007/BF03029967. S2CID 35479915. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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species of Ceratosolen wasp. The Ceratosolen wasps are parasitised by Apocrypta guineensis and Sycoscapter niger wasps during their larval development...
as do the larvae of the moth Melanocercops ficuvorella. The fig wasp Apocrypta bakeri has F. hispida as its host, where it parasitizes the pollinator...
Ficus hispida as its host, where it is parasitized by the other fig wasp Apocrypta bakeri. Wasp larvae develop and hatch into mature wasps entirely within...
wasp-bearing drupelets, without pollination taking place. The parasitic species Apocrypta guineensis and Sycoscapter niger use long ovipositors to pierce the fig...
wasp subfamily in the family Pteromalidae. Otitesellini: Adiyodiella, Apocrypta, Arachonia, Bouceka, Comptoniella, Crossogaster, Diaziella, Dobunabaa...
was a Czech botanist (studying Lichenology and Mycology). Kabatiella apocrypta (Ellis and Everh.) Kabatiella babajaniae Negru (1960) Kabatiella berberidis...
until reinstated as a valid genus by John S. Dugdale (1988). Phaeosaces apocrypta Meyrick, 1885 Phaeosaces coarctatella (Walker, 1864) Phaeosaces compsotypa...
minor (lesser bare-backed fruit bat) and is parasitized by the wasps Apocrypta meromassa Ulenberg 1985, and Ceratosolenm hooglandi Ficus species have...
———. "The heteroecism of Puccinia montanensis, P. koeleriae, and P. apocrypta". Mycologia 13 (6): 315-322. 1921. ———, Jackson HS. "Two strains of Puccinia...
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