What is Fig wasp?
{{Taxobox | name = Fig wasps | image =Blastophaga_psenes.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Blastophaga psenes]]'' female | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | ordo = [[Hymenoptera]] | subordo = [[Apocrita]] | superfamilia = [[Chalcidoidea]] }} '''Fig wasps''' are [[wasp]]s of the superfamily [[Chalcidoidea]] which spend their [[larva]]l stage inside [[ficus|fig]]s. Most [[pollinate]] the figs, but others simply feed on the plant. The non-pollinators belong to several groups in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. So, the fig wasps are a [[polyphyletic]] group: they include several unrelated lineages whose similarities are based upon their shared association with figs. The pollinators are all in the family [[Agaonidae]]. They make [[gall]]s. The other types either make their own galls or use the galls of other fig wasps.<ref>Boucek Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. C.A.B. International, Wallingford, England. 832 pp.</ref><ref>Cruaud, Astrid and others 2011. Phylogeny and evolution of life-history strategies in the Sycophaginae non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). ''BMC Evolutionary Biology''. '''11''': 178. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-178. PMC 3145598. PMID 21696591.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Wasps]] [[Category:Symbiosis]]