Pleistodontes plebejus Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Pleistodontes)

Pleistodontes plebejus Wiebes 1963. Holotype Type locality: Papua New Guinea

Distribution

Papua New Guinea, Melanesia (Irian Jaya)

Biology

Host fig: Ficus hesperidiiformis King

References

Wiebes JT. 1963. Indo-Malayan and Papuan fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) 2. The genus Pleistodontes Saunders (Agaonidae). Zoologische Mededeelingen (Leiden) 38:303–321.

Credits

Next genus: Pegoscapus        Next species: Pleistodontes proximus

Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

Citation: van Noort, S. & Rasplus, JY. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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