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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

Genus Eulophus

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Caterpillar with a problem - parasitic Apocrita - Eulophus - male Caterpillar with a problem - parasitic Apocrita - Eulophus - female Chalcid Wasp - Eulophus - female No Idea - Eulophus Identification needed - Eulophus Black eggs on oak leaf - Eulophus Eulophidae, pupae - Eulophus Eulophidae, a wasp, dorsal - Eulophus - 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 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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