Pleistodontes imperialis

Pleistodontes imperialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Chalcidoidea
Family: Agaonidae
Subfamily: Agaoninae
Genus: Pleistodontes
Species: P. imperialis
Binomial name
Pleistodontes imperialis
Saunders
Synonyms

Pleistodontes nigricaput Girault Pleistodontes nigris Girault[1]

Pleistodontes imperialis is a species of fig wasp which is native to Australia. It has an obligate mutualism with Ficus rubiginosa, the fig species it pollinates.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos; Dale J. Dixon, James M. Cook, Jean-Yves Rasplus (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. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118944298/abstract.