Ceratosolen solmsi

Ceratosolen solmsi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Agaonidae
Genus:	Ceratosolen
Species:	C. solmsi
Binomial name
Ceratosolen solmsi (Mayr, 1885)
Synonyms
Blastophaga solmsi Mayr, 1885 Ceratosolen marchali Mayr, 1906 Ceratosolen solmsi solmsi (Mayr, 1885) Ceratosolen solmsi marchali Mayr, 1906 Ceratosolen berlandi Grandi, 1928

Ceratosolen solmsi is a species of fig wasps in the family Agaonidae. It has Ficus hispida as its host, where it is parasitized by the other fig wasp Apocrypta bakeri. Wasp larvae develop and hatch into mature wasps entirely within the body of the fig. Female wasps that develop in the center rather than the periphery of the fig have more mating opportunities, produce more offspring, and produce more female relative to male offspring.

References

• Responses of the pollinating wasp Ceratosolen solmsi marchali to odor variation between two floral stages of Ficus hispida. Chen C and Song Q, J Chem Ecol., 2008 Dec, 34(12), pages 1536–44, doi:10.1007/s10886-008-9558-4
• Biology and behaviour of Apocrypta bakeri Joseph (Torymidae), cleptoparasite of Ceratosolen marchali Mayr (Agaonidae). Abdurahiman U.C. and Joseph K.J., 1978
• Jia, L-Y., Xiao, J-H., Niu, L-M., Ma, G-C., Fu, Y-G., Dunn, D.W., & Huang, D-W. (2014). Delimitation and description of the immature stages of a pollinating fig wasp, Ceratosolen solmsi marchali Mayr (Hymenoptera: Agonidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 104(2), 164–175.
• Peng, Y-G., Zhang, Y., Compton, S.G., & Yang, D-R.(2014). Fig wasps from the centre of figs have more chances to mate, more offspring and more female-biased offspring sex ratios. Animal Behaviour , 98, 19–25. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.017

External links

• "Ceratosolen solmsi" at the Encyclopedia of Life
• Life cycle documentary on YouTube