Agaonidae sunt familia vesparum ficos pollinantium ficosque frequentantium non pollinantium. Quae larvae intra fructus ficorum degunt. Vespae pollinantes (subfamiliarum Agaoninarum, Kradibiinarum, Tetrapusiinarum) sunt mutualistici arborum Ficorum socii; vespae autem non pollinantes (subfamiliae Sycophaginarum) sunt parasiticae.


Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Hymenoptera 
Subordo : Apocrita 
Superfamilia : Chalcidoidea 
Familia : Agaonidae 

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Bibliographia recensere

  • Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families with a reclassification of species.
  • Castro, Raquel Ribeiro de Souza, et al. 2015. "Composition and structure of the fig wasp community in Amazonia" in Acta Amazonica vol. 4 pp. 355-364
  • Cruaud, A., R. Jabbour-Zahab, G. Genson, et C. Cruaud. 2010. Laying the foundations for a new classification of Agaonidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), a multilocus phylogenetic approach. Cladistics 26(4):359–387. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00291.x.
  • Cruaud, A., R. Jabbour-Zahab, G. Genson, et F. Kjellberg. 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 Freely accessible. PMID 21696591.
  • Heraty, John M., Roger A Burks, A. Cruaud, et Gary A. P. Gibson. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29:466–542. doi:10.1111/cla.12006.
  • Machado, Carlos A., et al. 2001. "Phylogenetic relationships, historical biogeography and character evolution of fig-pollinating wasps" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences vol. 268 pp. 685–694
  • van Noort, S., et S. G. Compton. 1996. Convergent evolution of agaonine and sycoecine (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) head shape in response to the constraints of host fig morphology. Journal of Biogeography 23(4):415–424. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.1996.tb00003.x.
  • Walker, Franciscus. 1846. List of the specimens of Hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Pars 1, Chalcidites.

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