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Sycoryctinae

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

Classification

 

Apocryptini

Philotrypesini

Sycoryctini

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

 

 

Parasitoids or inquilines of galling fig wasps associated with Ficus subgenera: Ficus, Sycidium, Sycomorus, Pharmacosycea and Urostigma.

Wasp hosts: Apocryptophagus (Sycophaginae), Blastophaga (Agaoninae), Blastophaga psenes (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen capensis (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen dentifer (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen notus (Agaoninae), Ceratosolen solmsi (Agaoninae), Eupristina delhiensis (Agaoninae), Eupristina verticillata (Agaoninae), Kradibia brownii (Agaoninae), Kradibia gestroi (Agaoninae), Platyscapa quadraticeps (Agaoninae), Tetrapus (Agaoninae)

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