Sycomacophila Rasplus, 2003

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Unplaced; Subfamily: Epichrysomallinae)

Sycomacophila Rasplus, 2003. Type species: Sycomacophila carlolae Rasplus, 2003.

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Sycomacophila carolae Rasplus, 2003

Sycomacophila gibernaui Rasplus, 2003

Sycomacophila montana Rasplus, 2003

Distribution

Afrotropical region.

Biology

Gallmakers within figs of the subgenus Sycomorus.

Credits

References

Rasplus J.Y., Harry, M., Perrin H., Chassagnard, M.T. & Lachaise D. 2003. Les Ficus (Moraceae) et l'entomofaune des figues (Hym. Agaonidae, Pteromalidae, Torymidae, Eurytomidae; Dipt. Drosophilidae; Col. Curculionidae) du mont Nimba en Guinée, in Lamotte, M & Roy, R. (eds), Le peuplement animal du mont Nimba (Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia). Mémoirs du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190: 107-182. Paris.

Next genus: Sycophilodes

Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

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