榕树与传粉榕小蜂是研究协同进化的理想模型。奇特的生物学和行为学使传粉榕小蜂成为研究适应性进化的理想材料。传粉榕小蜂是研究同域物种形成的极好模型。尽管对传粉榕小蜂的生态学、行为学和系统发育有不少的研究，但关于传粉榕小蜂的分类学系统研究却较少。本项目旨在系统地开展我国榕小蜂科（传粉榕小蜂）的分类学研究，利用形态特征鉴定和描述我国传粉榕小蜂物种，应用分子标记确认传粉榕小蜂的物种身份、区别近缘物种和发现隐存种；并利用扫描电镜进一步探究与传粉榕小蜂特殊生物学和行为学相关的适应性特征，追溯这些适应性特征的进化规律。

Fig and fig wasps consist of a famous model for coevolution researches. The peculiar biological and behavioral characteristics of pollinating fig wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Agaonidae) make them best suitable samples to investigate adaptive evolution. Coexisted cryptic pollinator species shed light on the sympatric speciation studies. Multidisciplinary progresses have been achieved in ecological, ethological and phylogenetic studies of pollinating fig wasps. However, taxonomy of pollinating fig wasps has been developed very slowly. This project aims at a systematic study of the Chinese pollinating fig wasps, identifying and describing Chinese species based on morphological characters, reconfirming the species identities, diagnosing closely related species, and discovering cryptic species via molecular approaches. Furthermore, we will utilize scanning electron microscopy to explore the adaptive characters and to trace their evolutionary trajectories.