Elisabethiella socotrensis (MAYR 1885)

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Elisabethiella socotrensis (MAYR 1885)

Blastophaga socotrensis MAYR 1885 – Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35: 175-176.

Blastophaga dyscritus WATERSTON 1921 – Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1921: 417-418.

Blastophaga socotrensis . GRANDI 1928a – Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia del R. Istituto Superiore Agrario di Bologna 1: 69 (placed in subgenus Elisabethiella ). GRANDI 1928b; Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia del R. Istituto Superiore Agrario di Bologna 1: 159-163 (redescription; synonym B. dyscritus WATERSTON 1921 ).

Elisabethiella socotrensis . WIEBES 1977 – Netherlands Journal of Zoology 27: 210 (host record by MAYR 1885 incorrect; may have been F. vasta ). WIEBES 1989 a; Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (C) 92: 117-136 (confirmation of host record, review, key to species). BERG & WIEBES 1989; Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Verhandelingen Afdeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Reeks, Deel 89, Amsterdam: 242 (review).

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Yazd province: Tabas (663 m), 2, on Ficus sp. , 22 September 2006.

D i s t r i b u t i o n o u t s i d e I r a n Afrotropical: Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Socotra (ex F. vasta ); Kenya, Zambia (ex F. wakefieldii ); South Africa, Zimbabwe (ex F. natalensis ); Uganda, Yemen (host unknown).