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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 » Eulophus » Eulophus basalis

Species Eulophus basalis

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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 Chalcidoidea (Chalcidoid Wasps)
Family Eulophidae
Subfamily Eulophinae
Tribe Eulophini
Genus Eulophus
Species basalis (Eulophus basalis)
Remarks
Larvae parasitize caterpillars of the drab prominent, which feed on the undersides of sycamore leaves. They "exit from a mature host en masse, move a short distance away, usually less than 2 cm, void their meconium and attach their posteriors to the leaf. Within an hour they pupate and turn black" (Thompson & Solomon 1986). Say (1836) reared the type series from pupae found attached to the underside of a sycamore leaf, but he did not determine what caterpillar they had emerged from.
Print References
Say, T. 1836. Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera, and observations on some already described. Boston Journal of Natural History 1(3): 209–305. [Biodiversity Heritage Library]
Thompson, L. C. and J. D. Solomon. 1986. Parasites reared from Misogada unicolor (Packard) (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae), a defoliator of sycamore trees. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 59(3): 563–566. [JSTOR]
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 11 October, 2020 - 7:40am

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