Pegoscapus

Taxobox
name = Pegoscapus


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Chalcidoidea
familia = Agaonidae
subfamilia = Agaoninae
genus = "Pegoscapus"
genus_authority = Cameron 1906
subdivision_ranks = Speciescite web|url= http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/perth/chalcidoids/listchalcids.dsml?Family=Agaonidae&Superfamily=Chalcidoidea&Genus=Pegoscapus|title= Universal Chalcidoidea Database: Taxonomic Tree|accessdate= 2008-06-08|publisher= Natural History Museum]
subdivision = "Pegoscapus aemulus" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus aerumnosus" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus aguilari" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus amabilis" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus ambiguus" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus argentinensis" (Blanchard) "Pegoscapus assuetus" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus astomus" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus attentus" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus baschierii" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus bifossulatus" (Mayr) "Pegoscapus brasiliensis" (Mayr) "Pegoscapus bruneri" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus cabrerai" (Blanchard) "Pegoscapus carlosi" (Ramírez) "Pegoscapus clusiifolidis Schiffler & Azevedo "Pegoscapus cumanensis" (Ramírez) "Pegoscapus danorum" (Hoffmeyer) "Pegoscapus elisae" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus estherae" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus flagellatus" Wiebes "Pegoscapus flaviscapa" (Ashmead) "Pegoscapus franki" Wiebes "Pegoscapus gemellus" Wiebes "Pegoscapus grandii" (Hoffmeyer) "Pegoscapus groegeri" Wiebes "Pegoscapus herrei" Wiebes "Pegoscapus hoffmeyeri" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus ileanae" (Ramírez) "Pegoscapus insularis" (Ashmead) "Pegoscapus jimenezi" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus kraussi" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus longiceps" Cameron "Pegoscapus lopesi" (Mangabeira Filho) "Pegoscapus mariae" (Ramírez) "Pegoscapus mexicanus" (Ashmead) "Pegoscapus obscurus" (Kirby) "Pegoscapus orozcoi" (Ramírez) "Pegoscapus philippi" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus piceipes" (Ashmead) "Pegoscapus silvestrii" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus tomentellae" Wiebes "Pegoscapus tonduzi" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus torresi" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus tristani" (Grandi) "Pegoscapus urbanae" (Ramírez) "Pegoscapus williamsi" (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.cite journal | quotes = no | last = Machado | first = Carlos A. | authorlink = | coauthors = Emmanuelle Jousselin; Finn Kjellberg; Stephen G. Compton; Edward Allen Herre | year = 2001 | month = | title = Phylogenetic relationships, historical biogeography and character evolution of Ž fig-pollinating wasps | journal = Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_B | volume = 268 | issue = | pages = 685-694 | publisher = | location = | issn = | pmid = | pmc = | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2000.1418 | bibcode = | oclc = | id = | url = ]

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