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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eulophidae » Eulophinae » Eulophini » Euplectrus

Genus Euplectrus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Parasitized caterpillar - Euplectrus Chalcid eggs on caterpillar - Euplectrus Halfwing, 8 days after collection - Euplectrus Wasp - Euplectrus - male Eggs - Euplectrus small wasp - Euplectrus Chalcidoid; Euplectrus? - Euplectrus Euplectrus wasps - Euplectrus
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 Chalcidoidea (Chalcidoid Wasps)
Family Eulophidae
Subfamily Eulophinae
Tribe Eulophini
Genus Euplectrus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
genus needs revision
Explanation of Names
Euplectrus Westwood 1832
Numbers
15 spp. in our area, ~150 worldwide(1)
Food
They are ectoparasitoids of Lepidoptera caterpillars.
Life Cycle

larvae -- pupae -- adult
Remarks
Used to control lepidopteran pests (Gates & Schauff 2001)
Print References
(2)
Internet References
Genus page(3)
Works Cited
1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
2.Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de...
Hansson, C., M.A. Smith, D.H. Janzen, and W. Hallwachs. Zookeys. 2015; (485): 1–236. .
3.Burks R.A. Key to the nearctic genera of Eulophidae, subfamilies: Entedoninae, Euderinae and Eulophinae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea)
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 22 April, 2007 - 2:04pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 22 January, 2016 - 11:18pm

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