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Candy Ramírez Pérez

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The genus Philotrypesis Förster, 1878 of the subfamily Sycoryctinae (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) is reported for the first time in Dominican Republic and the Caribbean.  It was found in syconia of Ficus microcarpa L. (Moraceae) at the main campus of the  Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD).

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Ficus, fig wasps, Philotrypesis, first record, Hispaniola

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Ramírez Pérez, C. (2018). First record of the Sycoryctinae subfamily (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) and the genus Philotrypesis Förster, 1878, for the Dominican Republic. Novitates Caribaea, (12), 139–141. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i12.89

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