Pegoscapus

Pegoscapus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Agaonidae
Subfamily:	Agaoninae
Genus:	Pegoscapus; Cameron, 1906
Type species
	; Cameron, 1906
Species
	(Grandi); (Grandi); (Grandi); (Grandi); (Grandi); [nl] (, 1944); (Grandi); (Grandi); (Grandi); (Grandi); [nl] (Mayr, 1885); (Mayr); (Grandi); (Blanchard); (, 1970); [sv] ( & , 2002); (Ramírez); [nl] (, 1932); (Grandi); (Grandi); (); (Ashmead); (Wiebes); (Wiebes); (Hoffmeyer); (Wiebes); (Wiebes); (Grandi); (Ramírez); (Ashmead); (Grandi); (Grandi); (Cameron); (); (Ramírez); Pegoscapus mexicanus (Ashmead); (Kirby); (Ramírez); (Grandi); (Ashmead); (Grandi); (Wiebes); (Grandi); (Grandi); (Grandi); (Ramírez); (Grandi)

Pegoscapus is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. They range from Florida and Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. Pegoscapus pollinates species in section Americana of the subgenus Urostigma.

The genus is estimated to be 28 million years old using cytochrome oxidase nucleotide sequences, and more than 20 million years old based on a fossil in amber from the Dominican Republic.^[2]

References[]

^ "Universal Chalcidoidea Database: Taxonomic Tree". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
^ Machado, Carlos A.; Jousselin, Emmanuelle; Kjellberg, Finn; Compton, Stephen G.; Herre, Edward Allen (2001). "Phylogenetic relationships, historical biogeography and character evolution of fig-pollinating wasps". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 268 (1468): 685–694. doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1418. PMC 1088657. PMID 11321056.

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[UCD-1] "Universal Chalcidoidea Database: Taxonomic Tree". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2008-06-08.

[Machado2001-2] Machado, Carlos A.; Jousselin, Emmanuelle; Kjellberg, Finn; Compton, Stephen G.; Herre, Edward Allen (2001). "Phylogenetic relationships, historical biogeography and character evolution of fig-pollinating wasps". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 268 (1468): 685–694. doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1418. PMC 1088657. PMID 11321056.

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