Pleistodontes

Taxobox
name = "Pleistodontes"


image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Pleistodontes froggatti"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Chalcidoidea
familia = Agaonidae
subfamilia = Agaoninae
genus = "Pleistodontes"
genus_authority = Saunders 1882
subdivision_ranks = Speciescite web|url= http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/perth/chalcidoids/listChalcids.dsml?Family=Agaonidae&Superfamily=Chalcidoidea&Genus=Pleistodontes|title= Universal Chalcidoidea Database: Taxonomic Tree|accessdate= 2008-07-10|publisher= Natural History Museum]
subdivision = "Pleistodontes addicotti" Wiebes "Pleistodontes achorus" Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook "Pleistodontes astrabocheilus" Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook "Pleistodontes athysanus" Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook "Pleistodontes blandus" Wiebes "Pleistodontes claviger" (Mayr) "Pleistodontes cuneatus" Wiebes "Pleistodontes deuterus" Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook "Pleistodontes froggatti" Mayr "Pleistodontes galbinus" Wiebes "Pleistodontes greenwoodi" (Grandi) "Pleistodontes immaturus" Wiebes "Pleistodontes imperialis" Saunders "Pleistodontes longicaudus" Wiebes "Pleistodontes macrocainus" Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook "Pleistodontes mandibularis" Wiebes "Pleistodontes nigriventris" (Girault) "Pleistodontes nitens" (Girault) "Pleistodontes plebejus" Wiebes "Pleistodontes proximus" Wiebes "Pleistodontes regalis" Grandi "Pleistodontes rennellensis" Wiebes "Pleistodontes rieki" Wiebes "Pleistodontes rigisamos" Wiebes "Pleistodontes schizodontus" Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook "Pleistodontes xanthocephalus" Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook

"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 "Malvathera" 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.cite journal | quotes = no | last = Lopez-Vaamonde | first = Carlos | coauthors = Dale J. Dixon, James M. Cook, Jean-Yves Rasplus | year = 2002 | title = Revision of the Australian species of "Pleistodontes" (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) fig-pollinating wasps and their host-plant associations | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 136 | issue = 4 | pages = 637–83 | doi = 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00040.x | url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118944298/abstract ]

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