Pleistodontes deuterus

Taxobox
name = "Pleistodontes deuterus"


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image_caption = "Pleistodontes deuterus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Chalcidoidea
familia = Agaonidae
subfamilia = Agaoninae
genus = "Pleistodontes"
species = "P. deuterus"
binomial = "Pleistodontes deuterus"
binomial_authority = Lopez-Vaamonde, Dixon & Cook

"Pleistodontes deuterus" is a species of fig wasp which is native to Australia. It has an obligate mutualism with "Ficus pleurocarpa", the fig species it pollinates.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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