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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Chalcid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Fig wasps (Agaonidae)

Family Agaonidae - Fig wasps

Classification · Numbers · Food · Remarks · Internet References
Fig wasp - female Fig Wasp - female Fig Wasp - female Fig Wasp - female Fig Wasp - female Fig Wasp - female Cool little wasp Cool wasp wing
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)
Superfamily Chalcidoidea (Chalcid Wasps)
Family Agaonidae (Fig wasps)
Numbers
Nearctica lists 6 genera with 7 species.
Food
Figs
Remarks
Symbiotic with fig trees. Each species of Ficus has one or perhaps two species of wasp pollinators that lay their eggs inside the syconium.
Internet References
figweb (An extremely informative and comprehensive site covering this family.)
Wikipedia
Wayne's World
Video: "Pollination ecology in tropical figs -- a case of Mutualism" (The Scientific Film Research Service)
Article by Beatriz Moisset on the US Forest Service website.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 11 February, 2007 - 10:15am
Additional contributions by Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 16 May, 2009 - 5:00pm

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