Pleistodontes
Pleistodontes | |
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Pleistodontes sp. female | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Agaonidae |
Subfamily: | Agaoninae |
Genus: | Pleistodontes Saunders 1882 |
Type species | |
Pleistodontes imperialis Saunders, 1882
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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.[1]
Species[]
The Natural History Museum lists:[2]
- Pleistodontes addicotti
- Pleistodontes achorus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes astrabocheilus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes athysanus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Wiebes
- (Mayr)
- Pleistodontes cuneatus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes deuterus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes froggatti Mayr
- Wiebes
- Pleistodontes greenwoodi (Grandi)
- Wiebes
- Pleistodontes imperialis Saunders
- Wiebes
- Pleistodontes macrocainus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Wiebes
- Pleistodontes nigriventris (Girault)
- Pleistodontes nitens (Girault)
- Wiebes
- Pleistodontes proximus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes regalis Grandi
- Wiebes
- Wiebes
- Pleistodontes rigisamos Wiebes
- Pleistodontes schizodontus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes xanthocephalus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
References[]
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Universal Chalcidoidea Database: Taxonomic Tree". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
External links[]
Data related to Pleistodontes at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Agaonidae
- Hymenoptera genera
- Hymenoptera of Australia
- Insects of New Guinea
- Insects of Indonesia
- Taxa named by Edward Saunders (entomologist)