Tetrapus
Sign in to saveTetrapus is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. Tetrapus pollinates figs in the subgenus Pharmacosycea.
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It sits within the topics Agaonidae, Hymenoptera genera and Taxa named by Gustav Mayr.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Agaonidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, KU
- Recorded in
- Dominican Republic, Mexico
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- Tetrapus
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Tetrapus is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas. Fig wasps have an obligate mutualism with the fig species they pollinate. Tetrapus pollinates figs in the subgenus Pharmacosycea.
Tetrapus appears to be the sole genus of the subfamily Tetrapusiinae and a basal clade among the fig-pollinating wasps.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tetrapus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.