Pleistodontes blandus Wiebes

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

Pleistodontes blandus Wiebes 1963. Holotype desposition unknown Type locality:

Distribution

Solomon Islands

Biology

Host fig: Ficus glandifera Summerh

References

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

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