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Sycophaga
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Sycophaga

Sycophaga is a mainly Afrotropical gall wasp genus of the family Chalcidoidea that live on the section Sycomorus of the monoecious fig subgenus, Sycomorus, and one of several fig wasp genera to exploit its mutualism with Ceratosolen wasps.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Sycophaga sycomori

speciesSycophaga sycomori

Sycophaga testacea

speciesSycophaga testacea

Sycophaga gigas

speciesSycophaga gigas

Sycophaga agraensis

speciesSycophaga agraensis

Sycophaga cyclostigma

speciesSycophaga cyclostigma

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 643639.