Pegoscapus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Suborder: | Apocrita |
Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
Family: | Agaonidae |
Subfamily: | Agaoninae |
Genus: | Pegoscapus |
Species: | P. mexicanus |
Binomial name | |
Pegoscapus mexicanus Ashmead |
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]