Sycophila
Appearance
Sycophila | |
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Sycophila biguttata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Eurytomidae |
Subfamily: | Eurytominae |
Genus: | Sycophila Walker, 1871 |
Type species | |
Sycophila decatomoides Walker, 1871
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Species | |
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Sycophila is a genus of wasp that associates with figs[1] and galls of various insects such as gall wasps and gall midges.[2] They have a cosmopolitan distribution.
Species
There are currently around 120 described species.[3][4]
References
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- ^ Van Noort; et al. "Sycophila Walker". Figweb. iziko museums. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ Balduf, W. V. (1932). "Revision of the chalcid files of the tribe Decatomini (Eurytomidae) in America north of Mexico". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 79 (2894): 1–95. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.79-2894.1. hdl:10088/16072. ISSN 0096-3801.
- ^ "Universal Chalcidoidea Database". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ Gates, Michael W.; Zhang, Y. Miles; Buffington, Matthew L. (2020). "The great greenbriers gall mystery resolved? New species of Aprostocetus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) gall inducer and two new parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) associated with Smilax L. in southern Florida, USA". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 80: 71–98. doi:10.3897/jhr.80.59466.