Pleistodontes
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.
| 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 | |
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 Wiebes
- Pleistodontes achorus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes astrabocheilus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes athysanus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes blandus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes claviger (Mayr)
- Pleistodontes cuneatus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes deuterus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes froggatti Mayr
- Pleistodontes galbinus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes greenwoodi (Grandi)
- Pleistodontes immaturus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes imperialis Saunders
- Pleistodontes longicaudus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes macrocainus Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook
- Pleistodontes mandibularis Wiebes
- Pleistodontes nigriventris (Girault)
- Pleistodontes nitens (Girault)
- Pleistodontes plebejus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes proximus Wiebes
- Pleistodontes regalis Grandi
- Pleistodontes rennellensis Wiebes
- Pleistodontes rieki 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
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