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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 » Entedoninae » Entedonini » Pediobius

Genus Pediobius

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited
Eulophid ex Metriochroa psychotriella - Pediobius albipes Eulophid ex Celtis-mining Phyllonorycter - Pediobius albipes - female Eulophid ex Celtis-mining Phyllonorycter - Pediobius albipes - female Eulophid ex Phyllonorycter ex Lonicera involucrata - Pediobius alcaeus - female Eulophid ex Phyllonorycter clemensella - Pediobius albipes Eulophid ex Phyllocnistis ampelopsiella - Pediobius Pteromalid? - Pediobius chalcidoid - Pediobius - 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 Entedoninae
Tribe Entedonini
Genus Pediobius
Explanation of Names
Pediobius Walker 1846
Numbers
35 spp. in our area, ~220 total(1)
Size
1-3 mm
Food
Mostly primary parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of Lepidoptera, but also of Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Mantodea (eggs), Hemiptera, Thysanoptera, and spider egg sacs(2)
Life Cycle
Across species in which the biology is known, the spectrum of parasitoid life cycles has been observed in nearly equal proportions: ectoparasitic, endoparasitic, idiobiont, ectobiont, solitary, and gregarious(2)
Internet References
Genus page(3)
Works Cited
1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
2.The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica
Paul E. Hanson and Ian D. Gauld, editors. 1995. Oxford University Press.
3.Burks R.A. Key to the nearctic genera of Eulophidae, subfamilies: Entedoninae, Euderinae and Eulophinae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea)
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 26 November, 2012 - 7:52am
Additional contributions by josephfortier, v belov
Last updated 10 September, 2021 - 6:21pm

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