Pleistodontes
Pleistodontes | |
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Pleistodontes froggatti | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Suborder: | Apocrita |
Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
Family: | Agaonidae |
Subfamily: | Agaoninae |
Genus: | Pleistodontes Saunders 1882 |
Species[1] | |
Pleistodontes addicotti Wiebes |
Pleistodontes is a genus of fig wasps native to Australia and New Guinea, with one species (P. claviger) from Java. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. Pleistodontes pollinates species in section Malvanthera of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma.
In their revision of the Australian members of the genus, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde and coauthors expressed the opinion that P. claviger did not belong in the genus.[2]
References
- ↑ "Universal Chalcidoidea Database: Taxonomic Tree". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ↑ Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos; Dixon, Dale J.; Cook, James M.; Rasplus, Jean-Yves (2002). "Revision of the Australian species of Pleistodontes (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) fig-pollinating wasps and their host-plant associations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136 (4): 637–83. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00040.x.
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