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Pegoscapus groegeri Wiebes

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

Pegoscapus groegeri Wiebes 1995. Holotype female in National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Venezuela

Distribution

Venezuela

Biology

Host fig: Ficus mollicula (Pittier)

References

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

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