Pleistodontes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Agaonidae
- Genus
- Pleistodontes
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pleistodontes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pleistodontes
Pleistodontes is a genus of fig wasps native to Australia and New Guinea, with one species (P. claviger) from Java. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. Pleistodontes pollinates species in section Malvanthera of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma.
In their revision of the Australian members of the genus, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde and coauthors expressed the opinion that P. claviger did not belong in the genus.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Pleistodontes achorus
- Pleistodontes addicotti
- Pleistodontes anchorus
- Pleistodontes astrabocheilus
- Pleistodontes athysanus
- Pleistodontes blandus
- Pleistodontes claviger
- Pleistodontes cuneatus
- Pleistodontes deuterus
- Pleistodontes froggatti
- Pleistodontes galbinus
- Pleistodontes greenwoodi
- Pleistodontes immaturus
- Pleistodontes imperialis
- Pleistodontes longicaudus
- Pleistodontes macrocainus
- Pleistodontes mandibularis
- Pleistodontes nigriventris
- Pleistodontes nitens
- Pleistodontes plebejus
- Pleistodontes proximus
- Pleistodontes regalis
- Pleistodontes rennellensis
- Pleistodontes rieki
- Pleistodontes rigasamos
- Pleistodontes rigisamos
- Pleistodontes schizodontus
- Pleistodontes xanthocephalus


























