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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Trigonaloidea » Trigonalidae » Taeniogonalos » Taeniogonalos gundlachii

Species Taeniogonalos gundlachii

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Trigonaloidea
Family Trigonalidae
Genus Taeniogonalos
Species gundlachii (Taeniogonalos gundlachii)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trigonalis sulcatus Davis 1898
Trigonalys (Lycogaster) costalis Cresson 1867
Explanation of Names
Taeniogonalos gundlachii (Cresson 1865)
Size
Body ~8 mm
Range
e. NA; Cuba(1)
Life Cycle
Trigonalids are hyperparasitoids, parasitizing ichneumonid wasps and tachinid flies that are parasitoids of lepidopteran and dipteran hosts.
Females lay their eggs along the upper edge of a leaf that are then eaten by a feeding caterpillar. After ingestion of the eggs, if the caterpillar is parasitized by a primary host (a wasp or fly), upon hatching, the trigonalid larvae seek out the host larvae and parasitize them. They then emerge from the primary host puparium.
Remarks
Hyperparasitoids.
Works Cited
1.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 31 July, 2007 - 1:48pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 5 August, 2021 - 6:53am

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