Belongs within: Eurytominae.
Sycophila is a cosmopolitan genus of wasps with species found in both softer parts of plant galls and figs (Bouček 1988).
Characters (from Bouček 1988): Body slender; gena posteriorly without conspicuous straight carina; notauli rather shallow; marginal vein longer than stigmal, moderately to very strongly widened, stigmal and postmarginal veins short and not widened; propodeum with wavy cross-carina which medially adheres to anterior margin; petiole narrow, often dorsally concealed by convex base of gaster (in female); second tergite always much shorter than the large third (male) or fourth (female) tergite, gaster often compressed from side-to-side.
<==Sycophila Walker 1871 (see below for synonymy)B88 |--*S. decatomoides Walker 1871B88 |--‘Decatoma’ batatoides [=*Eudecatoma batatoides]B88 |--‘Eudecatoma’ biguttataA71 |--S. decatoma Bouček 1988 [=Eudecatoma decatomoides Girault 1915 non Sycophila decatomoides Walker 1871]B88 |--S. feralis (Girault 1915) [=Eudecatoma feralis]B88 |--S. justitia (Girault 1915) [=Eudecatoma justitia]B88 |--S. paucipunctata (Girault 1915) [=Eudecatoma paucipunctata]B88 |--S. persephone (Girault 1927)B88 [=Decatoma persephoneB88, Eudecatoma persephoneG26] |--S. sidnica (Girault 1927) [=Decatoma sidnica]B88 |--S. siphonodoni (Girault 1926) [=Eudecatoma siphonodoni]B88 `--S. texanaMH11
Sycophila Walker 1871 [incl. Decatomidea Ashmead 1888, Eudecatoma Ashmead 1888, Isanisa Walker 1875, Pseudisa Walker 1875, Tineomyza Rondani 1872]B88
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[A71] Askew, R. R. 1971. Parasitic Insects. Heinemann Educational Books: London.
[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[G26] Girault, A. A. 1926. New pests from Australia. II. Privately published (reprinted: Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 200–202).
[MH11] Munro, J. B., J. M. Heraty, R. A. Burks, D. Hawks, J. Mottern, A. Cruaud, J.-Y. Rasplus & P. Jansta. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PloS One 6 (11): e27023.