Pegoscapus mexicanus
Pegoscapus mexicanus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Agaonidae |
Genus: | Pegoscapus |
Species: | P. mexicanus
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Binomial name | |
Pegoscapus mexicanus (Ashmead, 1904)
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Pegoscapus mexicanus is a species of fig wasp which is native to Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. It has an obligate mutualism with Ficus aurea, the fig species it pollinates.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jousselin, Emmanuelle; Martine Hossaert-Mckey; Didier Vernet & Finn Kjellberg (2001). "Egg deposition patterns of fig pollinating wasps: implications for studies on the stability of the mutualism". Ecological Entomology. 26 (6): 602–608. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311.2001.00368.x. S2CID 84012172.
Categories:
- Agaonidae
- Hymenoptera of North America
- Fauna of the Southeastern United States
- Insects of Central America
- Insects of the Caribbean
- Insects of Mexico
- Taxa named by William Harris Ashmead
- Insects described in 1904
- Chalcidoidea stubs