Species Pleistodontes imperialis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited

Fig wasp - Pleistodontes imperialis - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)

Superfamily Chalcidoidea (Chalcidoid Wasps)

Family Agaonidae (Fig wasps)

Subfamily Agaoninae

Genus Pleistodontes

Species imperialis (Pleistodontes imperialis)

Explanation of Names

Pleistodontes imperialis (Saunders 1883)

Range

Australia (New South Wales), introduced elsewhere(1)

Food

host: Ficus rubiginosa(1) (the rusty fig, Port Jackson fig, little-leaf fig or damun)(1)

Internet References

Species page(1)

Wikipedia

Works Cited

1.	van Noort S., Rasplus J.-Y. (2004-2014) Fig wasps

Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 11 January, 2014 - 11:38am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 20 January, 2014 - 12:44am

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