Pleistodontes greenwoodi
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| Pleistodontes greenwoodi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
| Family: | Agaonidae |
| Subfamily: | Agaoninae |
| Genus: | Pleistodontes |
| Species: | P. greenwoodi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleistodontes greenwoodi Grandi |
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| Synonyms | |
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Blastophaga greenwoodi Grandi Proceratosolens medionigra Girault Pleistodontes medioniger Girault[1] |
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Pleistodontes greenwoodi is a species of fig wasp which is native to Australia. It has an obligate mutualism with Ficus obliqua, the fig species it pollinates.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ 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.
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