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{{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>

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