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Species Dinocampus coccinellae

Dead Lady Beetle and Cocoon - Dinocampus coccinellae

Coccinella septempunctata? - Dinocampus coccinellae

Dinocampus coccinellae from coccinellid host - Dinocampus coccinellae - female

Braconid wasp - Euphorinae - Dinocampus coccinellae - female

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 Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)

Family Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)

Subfamily Euphorinae

Tribe Dinocampini

Genus Dinocampus

Species coccinellae (Dinocampus coccinellae)

Other Common Names

lady beetle parasitoid wasp

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Perilitus coccinellae (Schrank) 1802

Range

It has worldwide distribution. Probably an introduced species.Naturespot. UK

Remarks

"It attacks ladybird beetle adults (and sometime late instar lavae). It lays its egg within the adult beetle, the egg develops into the first instar larvae where it waits within the beetle as they overwinter. About a month after it warms up, the wasp will emerge from the beetle as a larva, and spin a cocoon underneath the beetle's dead body. The aposomatic colors supposedly (very likely) protect the wasp larvae as it pupates." --Andy Boring

Probably an introduced species.

See Maria's comment on

Internet References

Dinocampus coccinellae. Parasitoid wasp threatens Scottish Seven Spot ladybird.

Sci. Wasp virus turns ladybugs into zombie babysitters. 2015. On parasite-host relationships.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 17 November, 2007 - 8:38pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 17 May, 2024 - 12:51am

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