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Sycoecinae Hill 1967

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

ClassificationIdentification Keys

 

Crossogaster Mayr, 1885
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Diaziella Grandi, 1928
Philocaenus_liodontus

Philocaenus Grandi, 1952
Robertsia_mandibularis

Robertsia Bouček, 1988
Seres_wardi

Seres Waterston, 1919

Sycoecus Waterston, 1914

Distribution

 

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Afrotropical: Yemen, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Seyhelles, Comoros, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Aldabra Island, South Africa. Indo-Australasian: Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea

Biology

Non-pollinating fig wasps (internal oviposition) in host Ficus (Moraceae) species in Subgenus Urostigma: Section Galoglychia and Section Stilpnophyllum (Subsection Malvanthera); Subgenus Pharmacosycea (Section Oreosycea)

Reference

Hill D. 1967. Figs (Ficus spp.) and fig wasps (Chalcidoidea). Journal of Natural History, 1: 413-434.

Credits

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