Blastophaga | |
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Blastophaga psenes | |
Scientific 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)
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Species | |
Blastophaga auratae |
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.