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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps (Ceraphronoidea) » Megaspilidae » Megaspilinae » Dendrocerus

Genus Dendrocerus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited
Parasitic wasp - Dendrocerus unknown wasp - Dendrocerus - male Dustywing parasitoid - Dendrocerus conwentziae Ceraphronidae? - Dendrocerus megaspilid - Dendrocerus megaspilid - Dendrocerus megaspilid - Dendrocerus Dendrocerus - 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 Ceraphronoidea (Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps)
Family Megaspilidae
Subfamily Megaspilinae
Genus Dendrocerus
Explanation of Names
Dendrocerus Ratzeburg 1852
Numbers
>20 spp. in our area(1)
Size
1-3 mm
Identification
vein protruding distally from large, thick stigma longer than stigma
middle ocellus slightly anterior to two medial ocelli
Life Cycle
Most are Megaspilidae are ectoparasitoids of concealed hosts in cocoons or puparia. Some Dendrocerus species are hyperparasitoids of aphids: they attack endoparasitoids of aphids, such as larvae of aphidiine braconids. While many Dendrocerus species attack a wide variety of hosts, some specialize on certain predators or parasitoids.(2)
Remarks
For more info on parasitoid life cycles, click here.
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica
Paul E. Hanson and Ian D. Gauld, editors. 1995. Oxford University Press.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 June, 2011 - 7:34am
Additional contributions by josephfortier, v belov
Last updated 21 September, 2015 - 1:26am

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