Sycoscapter

{{Short description|Genus of wasps}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sycoscapter sp. (7811242432).jpg | image_caption = ''Sycoscapter'' sp. female ovipositing | image2 = Sycoscapter australis male.jpg | image2_caption = ''Sycoscapter australis'' male from New Zealand | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Sycoscapter | authority = Westwood, 1883 }}

'''''Sycoscapter''''' is a genus of non-pollinating fig wasp which is native to the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian realms.<ref name="AGRIS">{{cite web|last1=COOK|first1=JAMES M.|last2=BOUTEILLER-REUTER|first2=CAROLINE|last3=HALE|first3=MARIE L.|title=Characterization of microsatellite markers for Sycoscapter nonpollinating fig wasps [2009]|url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201301621904|publisher=AGRIS|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="iziko">{{cite web|last1=van Noort|first1=S.|last2=Rasplus|first2=J.-Y.|title=''Sycoscapter'' Saunders|url=http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Pteromalidae/Sycoryctinae/Sycoryctini/Sycoscapter/index.htm|website=Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world|publisher=Iziko Museums|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref> They are parasitoids of fig wasps in the ''Ceratosolen'', ''Eupristina'' and ''Kradibia'' genera.<ref name="iziko"/>

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== External links == {{Wikispecies}} * [http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Pteromalidae/Sycoryctinae/Sycoryctini/Sycoscapter/index.htm Figweb]

Category:Pteromalidae Category:Hymenoptera genera Category:Hymenoptera of Australia Category:Taxa named by John O. Westwood