Platyscapa

{{Short description|Genus of wasps}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Platyscapa

| authority = Motschoulsky, 1863Motschulsky, V. de. 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'Ile Ceylon (Suite). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody (Otdel Biologicheskiy). 36(3):1-153.

| type_species = Platyscapa frontalis

| type_species_authority = Motschulsky, 1863

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Platyscapa is a genus of 19 species of pollinating fig wasps found in Africa and Madagascar, Middle East, southern Asia and the Indo-Pacific islands. They are pollinators of Ficus species belonging to subsections Conosycea and Urostigma.{{cite web |url=http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Agaonidae/Platyscapa/index.htm |title=Platyscapa |website=www.figweb.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041104220716/http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Agaonidae/Platyscapa/index.htm |archive-date=2004-11-04}}

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Category:Agaonidae

Category:Hymenoptera genera

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