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Genus Zagrammosoma

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Ornate Parasite - Zagrammosoma EulophidaeX - Zagrammosoma multilineatum Eulophidae - Zagrammosoma - female Zagrammosoma? - Zagrammosoma - female Wasp - Zagrammosoma americanum Wasp identified on iNaturalist as Zagrammosoma americanum - Zagrammosoma americanum Wasp identified on iNaturalist as Zagrammosoma americanum - Zagrammosoma americanum Is this Zagrammosoma occidentale? - Zagrammosoma - 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 Cirrospilini
Genus Zagrammosoma

Explanation of Names

Zagrammosoma Ashmead 1904

Numbers

9 spp. in our area, 13 total(1); see Perry & Heraty (2021) for updated information

Identification

Key to spp. in Perry & Heraty (2021)

Food

Hosts: mainly leafminers

Print References

LaSalle J. 1989. Notes on the genus Zagrammosoma (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with description of a new species. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 91: 230-236. (Full text)
Lasalle J., Parrella M.P. (1991) The chalcidoid parasites (Hymenoptera, chalcidoidae) of economically important Liriomyza species (Diptera, Agromyzidae) in North America. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 93: 571-591 (Full text)
Perry, R. K. and J. M. Heraty. 2021. Read between the lineata: a revision of the tattooed wasps, Zagrammosoma Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with descriptions of eleven new species. Zootaxa 4916(1): 1–108. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4916.1.1

Internet References

Genus page(2)

Works Cited

1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
2.Burks R.A. Key to the nearctic genera of Eulophidae, subfamilies: Entedoninae, Euderinae and Eulophinae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea)
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 10 October, 2010 - 7:34am
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 11 September, 2021 - 7:06pm

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