Kingdom Animalia Suborder Apocrita Family Agaonidae Scientific name Pegoscapus Rank Genus | Class Insecta Superfamily Chalcidoidea Subfamily Agaoninae Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenopterans | |
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Similar Hymenopterans, Ficus citrifolia, Ceratosolen, Agaonidae, Pleistodontes | ||
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.
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