Genus Eulophus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited

Eulophidae, pupae, ex Lepidoptera - Eulophus

Eulophidae, ex Lepidoptera - Eulophus - female

Eulophidae, a wasp, dorsal - Eulophus - female

Chalcid wasps - Eulophidae - Eulophus - male

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

Explanation of Names

Eulophus Geoffroy 1762

Numbers

15 spp. in our area, 80 total(1)

Life Cycle

Larvae of some species live gregariously as ectoparasitoids of leaf-feeding, free-living caterpillars. When mature, they pupate close to the host's remains on a leaf (the remains often fall away). These parasitoid larvae often pupate on leaves around their dead host. The pupae are naked, brown or black, ~2 mm long, with a tiny pile of yellow meconium beside each one.(2)

Internet References

Genus page(3)

Works Cited

1.	Universal Chalcidoidea Database

2.	Insect Life and Insect Natural History S. W. Frost. 1959. Dover Publications, Inc.

3.	Burks R.A. Key to the nearctic genera of Eulophidae, subfamilies: Entedoninae, Euderinae and Eulophinae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea)

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 12 January, 2009 - 3:52am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 10 September, 2021 - 5:17pm

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