Pleistodontes rigisamos

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chalcidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Chalcidoidea

Familia: Agaonidae
Genus: Pleistodontes
Species: Pleistodontes rigisamos

Name

• Pleistodontes rigisamos Wiebes, 1991
  • Authority for placement: original
  • Original genus: Pleistodontes Saunders, 1882
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: lectotype
    • Fixation: designated by Lopez-Vaamonde et al., 2002: 653 ('here designated'), 654
    • Description: [adult] female
    • Repository: ANIC
  • Type host: Ficus destruens
  • Type locality: 'Australia Theresa Creek Road at t.o. to Millaa Millaa Falls'
  • ZooBank: 1D4D0B59-3CF6-4C16-806C-2168866E61FA

References

Primary references

• Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Dixon, D.J., Cook, J.M. & Rasplus, J.-Y. 2002. Revision of the Australian species of Pleistodontes (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) fig-pollinating wasps and their host-plant associations. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 136(4): 637–683. DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00040.x . Reference page.  [lectotype designation, see p. 653, and figs. 9, 41, 43, 45, 47]
• Wiebes, J.T. 1991: Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, VII (Pleistodontes). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Biological chemical geological physical and medical sciences 94(1): 137-152. PDF Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 145, and figs. 1-5]

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