Agaonidae
Agaonidae is a family of chalcidoid wasps commonly known as fig wasps, best known for their specialized and obligate mutualism with fig trees (genus Ficus). Members of the family are tiny, often only a few millimeters long, and exhibit pronounced sexual dimorphism; males are frequently wingless and remain inside the fig inflorescence (syconium) while females are winged and disperse to find new figs.
Biology and life cycle center on the syconium, a hollow inflorescence that houses many small flowers. A
Agaonidae are primarily tropical and subtropical in distribution, reflecting the range of their host figs. The
Non-pollinating fig wasps, which exploit figs without providing pollination, belong to several other chalcidoid lineages and