Pegoscapus mexicanus

Pegoscapus
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]

References

  1. 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.