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Sycophaga Westwood

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

Sycophaga Westwood 1840. Sycophaga crassipes Wetswood 1840.

 

 

Sycophaga afflicta Grandi,1916

 

Sycophaga callani Grandi,1955

 

Sycophaga cyclostigma Waterston,1916

 

Sycophaga depressa Risbec,1956

 

Sycophaga gigantea Grandi,1916

 

Sycophaga insularis Grandi,1916

 

Sycophaga silvestrii Grandi,1916

 

Sycophaga sycomori Linnaeus,1758

 

Sycophaga tenebrosa Grandi,1917

 

Sycophaga valentinae Grandi,1952

 

Sycophaga vicina Mayr,1906

 

Sycophaga viduata Grandi,1916

Distribution

Sycophaga_map

Afrotropical: Senegal, Guinea, Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar, Holarctic: Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel

Biology

Host fig: Ficus sur (Moraceae)

Reference

Westwood, J.O. 1840. On caprification as practised upon the Figs in the south of Europe and the Levant, with descriptions of the insects employed for that purpose; and observations upon the Agaon paradoxum Dalman. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. II:214-224.

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