Belongs within: Agaonidae.
Pleistodontes is an Australasian genus of wasps that pollinate figs of Ficus section Malvanthera (Bouček 1988).
Characters (from Bouček 1988): Females with head slightly to strongly longer than broad, with long subparallel genae; mandibular appendage usually with more than 20 laminae, these sometimes denticulate; amennal scape either slender, fully 3 times as long as broad or shorter but then in dorsal part thin foliaceous; apical spiracles of gaster without long peritremata. Males with reduced wings, all tarsi five-segmented.
Pleistodontes Saunders 1882 [=Plistodontes Schulz 1906; incl. Neoceratosolens Girault 1915, Proceratosolens Girault 1933]B88
|--+--P. blandus Wiebes 1963MH11, B88
| `--P. froggatti Mayr 1906MH11, B88 [incl. P. mayri Girault 1939B88, P. semiruficeps Girault 1929B88]
`--+--*P. imperialis Saunders 1883B88, MH11, B88
`--+--P. nitens (Girault 1915)MH11, B88 [=*Neoceratosolens nitensB88; incl. P. regalis Grandi 1952B88]
`--+--P. rigisamosMH11
`--+--P. greenwoodi (Grandi 1928)MH11, B88 [=Blastophaga greenwoodiB88]
`--P. xanthocephalusMH11
Pleistodontes incertae sedis:
P. addicottiD03
P. athysanusD03
P. austrobocheilusD03
P. cuneatusD03
P. deuterusD03
P. galbinus Wiebes 1977B88
P. immaturus Wiebes 1963B88
P. listzi Girault 1932G32
P. longicaudus Wiebes 1977B88
P. macrocainusD03
P. mandibularis Wiebes 1977B88
P. medioniger (Girault 1933) [=*Proceratosolens medionigra]B88
P. nigricaput Girault 1927B88
P. nigris Girault 1925B88
P. nigriventris (Girault 1915) [=Agaon nigriventris]B88
P. plebejus Wiebes 1963B88
P. proximusD03
P. rennellensis Wiebes 1968 [=P. blandus rennellensis]B88
P. rieki Wiebes 1963B88
P. schizodontesD03
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[D03] Dixon, D. J. 2003. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Ficus species in the section Malvanthera (Ficus subg. Urostigma: Moraceae). Telopea 10 (1): 125–153.
[G32] Girault, A. A. 1932. New lower Hymenoptera from Australia and India. Privately published (reprinted: Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 293–298).
[MH11] Munro, J. B., J. M. Heraty, R. A. Burks, D. Hawks, J. Mottern, A. Cruaud, J.-Y. Rasplus & P. Jansta. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PloS One 6 (11): e27023.