Blastophaga

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Blastophaga
Blastophaga psenes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Agaonidae
Subfamily:	Agaoninae
Genus:	Blastophaga Gravenhorst, 1829
Type species
Blastophaga psenes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
Blastophaga psenes

Blastophaga is a wasp genus in the family Agaonidae (fig wasps) which pollinate figs or are otherwise associated with figs, a coevolutional relationship that has been developing for at least 80 million years. Pollinating fig wasps are specific to specific figs. The common fig Ficus carica is pollinated by Blastophaga psenes.

References[]

• Proctor, M., Yeo, P. & Lack, A. (1996). The Natural History of Pollination. Timber Press, Portland, OR. ISBN 0-88192-352-4

External links[]

• The Fig Web. Blastophaga

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