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Pegoscapus ileanae (Ramirez)

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

Blastophaga (Pegoscapus) ileanae Ramirez 1970. Holotype female in United States Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. Type locality: Costa Rica

Distribution

Costa Rica

Biology

Host fig: Ficus schippii (Standley)

References

Ramirez B., - Taxonomic and biological studies of Neotropical fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae). Kansas Univ. Dci. Bull. 49, 1-44 (1970).

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