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Pegoscapus flagellatus Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Pegoscapus)

Pegoscapus flagellatus Wiebes 1983. Holotype female in National Natural History Museum, Leiden Type locality: Peru

Distribution

Peru

Biology

Host: Ficus guianensis (Desvaux)

References

Wiebes, J.T. -Records and descriptions of Pegoscapus Cameron (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet. (C) 86, 243-253 (1983).

 

Wiebes, J.T.-Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, xv (Meso-American Pegoscapus). Proc. Kon. Akad. Wet. 98, 167-183 (1995).

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