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Sycoecina Hill

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

Sycoecini Hill, 1967. Type genus: Sycoecus Waterston, 1914.

ClassificationIdentification Keys

Crossogaster Mayr, 1885

Diaziella/images/Diaziella_macroptera_habitus_220.jpg

Diaziella Grandi, 1928

Robertsia_mandibularis

Robertsia Bouček, 1988

Seres_wardi

Seres Waterston, 1919

Sycoecus Waterston, 1914

Distribution

 

Sycoecinae_map

Afrotropical: Yemen, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Seychelles, Comoros, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Aldabra Island, South Africa. Indo-Australasian: Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea

Biology

Non-pollinating fig wasps (internal oviposition) in host Ficus (Moraceae) species in Subgenus Urostigma: Section Galoglychia and Section Stilpnophyllum (Subsection Malvanthera); Subgenus Pharmacosycea (Section Oreosycea).

References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) : a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, 1-832 pp.

Burks R, Mitroiu M-D, Fusu L, Heraty JM, Janšta P, Heydon S, Papilloud ND-S, Peters RS, Tselikh EV, Woolley JB, van Noort S, Baur H, Cruaud A, Darling C, Haas M, Hanson P, Krogmann L, Rasplus J-Y. 2022. From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach to rendering Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera) monophyletic. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94:13-88. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263

Cruaud A, Rasplus J-Y, Zhang J, Burks R, Delvare G, Fusu L, Gibson GAP, Gumovsky A, Hanson P, Huber JT, Janšta P, Mitroiu M-D, Noyes JS, van Noort S, Baker A, Böhmová J, Baur H, Blaimer BB, Brady1 SG, Bubeníková K, Chartois M, Copeland RS, Dale-Skey Papilloud N, Dal Molin A, Darling C, Dominguez C, Fisher N, Gates MW, Gebiola M, Guerrieri E, Haas M, Hansson C, Heydon S, Kresslein RL, Krogmann L, Moriarty Lemmon E, Mottern J, Murray E, Nidelet S, Nieves Aldrey JL, Perry R, Peters RS, Pinto JD, Polaszek A, Sauné L, Schmidt S, Torréns J, Triapitsyn S, Tselikh EV, Ubaidillah R, Yoder M, Lemmon A, Woolley JB, Heraty JM. In press. The Chalcidoidea bush of life–a massive radiation blurred by mutational saturation. Systematic Entomology https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.11.507458

Cruaud A, Underhill JG, Huguin M, Genson G, Jabbour-Zahab R, Tolley KA, Rasplus JY, van Noort S. 2013. A Multilocus Phylogeny of the World Sycoecinae Fig Wasps (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). PLoS ONE 8(11): e79291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079291  

Gardiner, A.J. & Compton, S.G. 1987. New species of the fig wasp genus Diaziella (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Sycoecinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 130:129–140.

Grandi, G. 1928. Un nuovo genre quattro nuove specie di imenotteri sicofili di Sumatra. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia del R.Istituto Superiore Agrario di Bologna 1: 71-89.

Grandi, G. 1952. Insetti dei fichi senegalesi. Bollettino dell'Istituto di Entomologia della Universitŕ degli Studi di Bologna. 19:31-45.

Hill D. 1967. Figs (Ficus spp.) and fig wasps (Chalcidoidea). Journal of Natural History, 1: 413-434.

Mayr, G. 1885. Feigeninsecten. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35, 147-250.  

van Noort S., 1993. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), II (Sycoecus). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 96: 449-475.

van Noort S., 1993. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), I (Seres). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 96(2): 233-251.  

van Noort S., 1994a. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), III (Crossogaster). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97(1): 83-122.  

van Noort, S. 1994b. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), IV (Philocaenus, in part). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 97: 311-339.

van Noort, S. 1994c. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), V (Philocaenus, concluded; generic key; checklist). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97: 341-375.  

van Noort, S., Peng, Y.Q. & Rasplus, J.Y. 2006. First record of the fig wasp genus Diaziella Grandi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae) from the Asian mainland with description of two new species from China. Zootaxa 1337: 39-59.

van Noort, S. & Rasplus, J.Y. 2005. Revision of the Papua New Guinean fig wasp genus Robertsia Bouček(Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Sycoecinae). Zootaxa 929: 1-35.

Waterston, J. 1914. Notes on African Chalcidoidea. I. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 5:249-258.

Waterston, J. 1919. A new sycophagine (Agaonidae-Chalcidoidea) genus and species from the Gold Coast. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 55, 274-277.

Wiebes, J.T. 1974. The fig wasp genus Diaziella (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Torymidae, Sycoecini). Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam (C) 77: 295-300.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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Citation: van Noort, S. & Rasplus, JY. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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