Sycophila

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Chalcidoidea

Familia: Eurytomidae
Subfamilia: Eurytominae
Genus: Sycophila
Species: S. hunanensis – S. melanoloma – S. melanopoda – S. plectroniae
Name

Sycophila Walker, 1871
References

Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum, Supplement 1-116. Reference page.
Xiao, H., Zhang, R. & Gao, M-Q. 2021. Three new species of the genus Sycophila (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) from China. Zookeys 1029: 123–137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1029.60911 Open access Reference page.

Sycophila is a genus of wasp that associates with figs[1] and galls of various insects such as gall wasps and gall midges.[2] They have a cosmopolitan distribution.

Species

There are currently around 120 described species[3][4]

References

Van Noort; et al. "Sycophila Walker". Figweb. iziko museums. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
Balduf, W. V. (1932). "Revision of the chalcid files of the tribe Decatomini (Eurytomidae) in America north of Mexico". doi:10.5479/si.00963801.79-2894.1. ISSN 0096-3801.
"Universal Chalcidoidea Database". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
Gates, Michael W.; Zhang, Y. Miles; Buffington, Matthew L. (2020). "The great greenbriers gall mystery resolved? New species of Aprostocetus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) gall inducer and two new parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) associated with Smilax L. in southern Florida, USA". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 80: 71–98. doi:10.3897/jhr.80.59466.