Pegoscapus insularis (Ashmead)

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

Blastophaga insularis Ashmead 1900. Holotype in United States Museum of Natural History and The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: St. Vincent

Distribution

Biology

Host fig: Ficus citrifolia, Ficus oerstediana

References

Ashmead, W.H.-Report on the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Granada, with additions to parasatic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Trans. Ent. Soc. London for 1900, 207-367 (1900).

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