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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Trissolcus

small wasp - Trissolcus Hibernating - Trissolcus parasitic wasp - Trissolcus euschisti - female Platygastridae? - Trissolcus wasp - Trissolcus Stinkbug egg parasitoids. 8/25/12 - Trissolcus Stinkbug egg parasitoids. Wasp 2. 9/1/12 - Trissolcus edessae - female Chalcid Wasp? - Trissolcus - 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 Platygastroidea
Family Scelionidae
Subfamily Telenominae
Genus Trissolcus
Explanation of Names
Trissolcus Ashmead 1893
Numbers
11 spp. in our area(1), ~180 worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide(2)
Food
parasitize eggs of Pentatomorpha; hosts listed here(2)
Remarks
Several introduced species used as biocontrols.