Blastophaga

Life-forms

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

Familia: Agaonidae
Subfamilia: Blastophaginae
Genus: Blastophaga
Species (12): B. breviventris – B. glabellae – B. mayeri – B. nipponica – B. pedunculosae – B. psenes – B. quadrupes – ?B. schwarzii – B. silvestriana – B. taiwanensis – B. tannoensis – B. yeni
Source(s) of checklist:
Checklist based uncritically on UCD
Name
Blastophaga Gravenhorst, 1829: Schles. Ges. vat. Kultur Beitr. Entom., 27.

Blastophaga psenes. A, Male, × 22; B, female, × 15. (After Mayer, Mitt. Stat. Neapel, iii. 1882.)

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. Pollinating fig wasps are specific to specific figs. The common fig Ficus carica is pollinated by Blastophaga psenes.
References

Proctor, M., Yeo, P. & Lack, A. (1996). The Natural History of Pollination. Timber Press, Portland, OR. ISBN 0-88192-352-4