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Sycoscapter gibbus Saunders

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Sycoryctinae; Tribe: Sycoryctini, Genus: Sycoryctes)

Sycoscapter gibbus Saunders 1883. Holotype desposition unknown Type locality: Madagascar

 

Distribution

Sycoscapter gibbus_map

Madagascar, Réunion

Biology

Host figs: Ficus politoria Lam.; Ficus lateriflora Vahl

Reference

Saunders, S.S. 1883. Descriptions of 3 new genera and species of fig insects allied to Blastophaga, from Calcutta, Australia, and Madagascar, with notes on their parasites and on the affinities of the respective races. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1883:1-27, plt i-iii.

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