Platyscapa

Platyscapa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Agaonidae
Genus: Platyscapa
Motschoulsky, 1863[1]
Type species
Platyscapa frontalis
Motschulsky, 1863
Species

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Platyscapa is a genus of 19 species of pollinating fig wasps found in Africa and Madagascar, Middle East, southern Asia and the Indo-Pacific islands. They are pollinators of Ficus species belonging to subsections Conosycea and Urostigma.[2]

Species

References

  1. Motschulsky, V. de. 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'Ile Ceylon (Suite). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody (Otdel Biologicheskiy). 36(3):1-153.
  2. http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Agaonidae/Platyscapa/index.htm
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