Pegoscapus
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Pegoscapus aemulus (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 fly in amber from the Dominican Republic.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Universal Chalcidoidea Database: Taxonomic Tree. Natural History Museum. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
- ^ Machado, Carlos A.; Emmanuelle Jousselin; Finn Kjellberg; Stephen G. Compton; Edward Allen Herre (2001). Phylogenetic relationships, historical biogeography and character evolution of fig-pollinating wasps. Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_B 268: 685-694. doi:.
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