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

Subfamily Tetrastichinae

Parasitoid of Andricus parmula - Aprostocetus - female Small Wasp - female Paper Wasp Parasitoid Wasp from cedar berries Parasite of Lepidopteran larva, Eulophid? Aprostocetus fidius - female Eurytomidae? Eulophidae, ex Bucculatrix simulans - male - 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 Tetrastichinae
Explanation of Names
Tetrastichinae Förster 1856
Numbers
~240 spp. in ~50 genera in our area, __ spp. in 110 genera total(1)
Remarks
According to Christer Hansson, there are no useful identification keys to North American species in this subfamily (at least not in the genera Aprostocetus, Baryscapus, and Minotetrastichus), so identification past genus is generally not possible.