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Sycophaginae Walker

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

Sycophaginae Walker 1975

Classification

 

Anidarnes Bouček 1993

Apocryptophagus

Apocryptophagus Ashmead 1904

 

Eukoebelea Ashmead 1904

 

Idarnes Walker 1843

 

Pseudidarnes Girault 1927

 

Sycophaga Westwood 1840

Distribution

Worldwide

Reference

 

Walker, F. 1875. Descriptions of new genera and species of parasites, belonging to the families Proctotrupidae and Chalcididae, which attack insects destructive to the fig in India. Entomologist 8: 15-18.

Biology

Gall formers developing in the fig ovules.

 


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