Sycophila, Walker, 1871

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Delvare, Gérard, Cruaud, Astrid & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2024, Morphological phylogeny and revision of Sycophila and Ficomila (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) associated with Afrotropical fig trees (Moraceae, Ficus), Zootaxa 5401 (1), pp. 1-190 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5401.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:376CAB04-43BE-4C9A-950B-80DBD676CFB0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16423466

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD6B5E-722E-6135-5486-B5A4FA2EF961

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Plazi

scientific name

Sycophila
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Key to genera and Sycophila View in CoL subgenera associated with Ficus (both sexes)

1 Marginal vein obviously bulging and conspicuously convex ventrally; postmarginal vein conspicuous ( Figs 10F View FIGURE 10 , 48F View FIGURE 48 , 51F View FIGURE 51 , 54F View FIGURE 54 , 57D View FIGURE 57 , 59F View FIGURE 59 ); fu1 long ( Figs 2B View FIGURE 2 , 47B View FIGURE 47 , 50B View FIGURE 50 , 53B View FIGURE 53 , 56F View FIGURE 56 , 58B View FIGURE 58 , 61B View FIGURE 61 ), several times longer than pedicel; propodeum deeply concave medially ( Figs 48B View FIGURE 48 , 51B View FIGURE 51 , 54B View FIGURE 54 , 57B View FIGURE 57 )...................................................................... 2

- Marginal vein slightly widened and not convex ventrally ( Figs 5A View FIGURE 5 , 13F View FIGURE 13 , 18F View FIGURE 18 , 20F View FIGURE 20 , 22E View FIGURE 22 , 25F View FIGURE 25 , 94E View FIGURE 94 , 96F View FIGURE 96 ); postmarginal vein sometimes distinct; fu1 at most as long as pedicel ( Figs 93B View FIGURE 93 , 95B View FIGURE 95 , 97E View FIGURE 97 , 100B View FIGURE 100 , 103B View FIGURE 103 ) or longer in Ficomila and platygastra species-group; propodeum slightly depressed medially ( Figs 13B View FIGURE 13 , 15B View FIGURE 15 , 16B View FIGURE 16 , 18B View FIGURE 18 , 20B View FIGURE 20 , 96A View FIGURE 96 , 98B View FIGURE 98 , 99C View FIGURE 99 )................ 3

2(1) Gena distinctly carinate ( Figs 47E View FIGURE 47 , 50E View FIGURE 50 ); mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process ( Figs 7C, 7D View FIGURE 7 ); scrobal depression carinate dorsally and laterally ( Figs 47D View FIGURE 47 , 50D View FIGURE 50 )......................................... Sycophila ( Ficorytoma subgen. n.)

- Gena margined but not carinate; mesodiscrimen with median raised setiferous punctures but without ring-like process ( Figs 6C, 6D View FIGURE 6 ); scrobal depression generally not carinate ( Figs 1A, 1B View FIGURE 1 , 2A View FIGURE 2 ).............................. Sycophila (Sycophila)

3(1) Mesodiscrimen with a ring-like process ( Figs 3B View FIGURE 3 , 7B View FIGURE 7 , 14F View FIGURE 14 , 27F View FIGURE 27 , 30F View FIGURE 30 , 33F View FIGURE 33 , 41F View FIGURE 41 , 44F View FIGURE 44 ); fu1 longer than pedicel, curved dorsally ( Figs 12B View FIGURE 12 , 14B View FIGURE 14 , 17B View FIGURE 17 , 19B View FIGURE 19 , 21B View FIGURE 21 , 23B View FIGURE 23 ); ventral transverse carina separating petiole from first sternite present in female; stigmal vein distinctly curved, postmarginal vein obsolete ( Figs 13F View FIGURE 13 , 15E View FIGURE 15 , 16D View FIGURE 16 , 18F View FIGURE 18 , 20F View FIGURE 20 , 22F View FIGURE 22 )........................ Ficomila

- Mesodiscrimen flattened ( Figs 6A, B View FIGURE 6 ); fu1 not curved; ventral transverse carina between petiole and first sternite absent stat. or present; stigmal vein straight, postmarginal vein distinct ( Figs 5A View FIGURE 5 , 96F View FIGURE 96 , 98F View FIGURE 98 , 99D View FIGURE 99 , 101F View FIGURE 101 , 104F View FIGURE 104 )... Sycophila ( Tineomyza rev.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Chalcidoidea

Family

Eurytomidae

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