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Pegoscapus bacataensis
Pegoscapus bacataensis is a species of fig wasp in the genus Pegoscapus which is native to Colombia. It has an obligate mutualism with Ficus andicola, the fig species it pollinates. It was first described by Sergio Jansen and Carlos Sarmiento in 2008. The egg stage of Pegoscapus bacataensis is around 130 days, longer than other pollinating fig wasps.
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Pegoscapus bacataensis is named after Bacatá, the name for the Bogotá savanna in Muysccubun, the language of the indigenous Muisca.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 773166.