Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Suborder Apocrita Scientific name Pleistodontes macrocainus | Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenoptera Superfamily Chalcidoidea Rank Species | |
Pleistodontes macrocainus is a species of fig wasp which is native to Australia. It is associated with Ficus cerasicarpa and F. brachypoda.
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Description
Female P. macrocainus wasps are 1.6 to 1.9 millimetres (0.063 to 0.075 in) long, while males are 0.9 to 1.1 mm (0.035 to 0.043 in) long.
Taxonomy
Pleistodontes macrocainus was described by Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Dale Dixon and James M. Cook in 2002 based on specimens collected from Ficus cerasicarpa. Since they could not discern any consistent differences between the wasps collected from F. cerasicarpa and F. brachypoda, they concluded that both figs are pollinated by the same species of fig wasp.
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