Pegoscapus
Sign in to savePegoscapus 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.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 31
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Agaonidae
- Collections
- KU, NHMUK, INHS, SAM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Peru, Dominican Republic, United States, Mexico, Brasilie, Brasil
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Habitat
- Mutualism
- Reproduction and development
- Male morphology
- Female lethal combat
- Speciation
- Cryptic species
- Local mate competition, inbreeding, and sex ratios
- Conflicts with local mate competition theory
- Factors influencing reproduction
- Non-pollinating fig wasps
- Nematodes
- Temperature
- References
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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