Blastophaga
| Blastophaga | |
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| Blastophaga psenes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Agaonidae |
| Subfamily: | Agaoninae |
| Genus: | Blastophaga Gravenhorst, 1829 |
| Type species | |
| Blastophaga psenes (Linnaeus, 1758)
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| Species | |
Blastophaga is a wasp genus in the family Agaonidae (fig wasps) which pollinate figs or are otherwise associated with figs, a coevolutional relationship that has been developing for at least 80 million years.[1] Pollinating fig wasps are specific to specific figs. The common fig Ficus carica is pollinated by Blastophaga psenes.
References[edit]
- ^ Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico: Synoptic Catalog, Second Supplement. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1967. p. 248.
- Proctor, M., Yeo, P. & Lack, A. (1996). The Natural History of Pollination. Timber Press, Portland, OR. ISBN 0-88192-352-4
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