Pleistodontes Nitens
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''Pleistodontes nitens'' is a species of fig wasp which is native to
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
. It has an
obligate {{wiktionary, obligate As an adjective, obligate means "by necessity" (antonym ''facultative'') and is used mainly in biology in phrases such as: * Obligate aerobe, an organism that cannot survive without oxygen * Obligate anaerobe, an organism that ...
mutualism with ''
Ficus crassipes ''Ficus crassipes'', commonly known as the round-leaved banana fig is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has large brownish cylindrical syconia. Description ''Ficus crassipes'' is a ...
'', the fig species it pollinates.


References

Agaonidae Hymenoptera of Australia Insects described in 1915 Taxa named by Alexandre Arsène Girault {{Chalcidoidea-stub