Blastophaga
Blastophaga psenes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Agaonidae
Subfamily: Agaoninae
Genus: Blastophaga
Gravenhorst, 1829
Type species
Blastophaga psenes
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

Blastophaga auratae
Blastophaga psenes
Blastophaga yeni

Blastophaga is a wasp genus in the family Agaonidae (fig wasps) which pollinate figs or are otherwise associated with figs, a coevolutional relationship that has been developing for at least 80 million years.[1] Pollinating fig wasps are specific to specific figs. The common fig Ficus carica is pollinated by Blastophaga psenes.

References

  1. Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico: Synoptic Catalog, Second Supplement. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1967. p. 248.
  • Proctor, M., Yeo, P. & Lack, A. (1996). The Natural History of Pollination. Timber Press, Portland, OR. ISBN 0-88192-352-4


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