Species Eupelmus dryohizoxeni

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References

New wasps have appeared! - Eupelmus dryohizoxeni - female

Eupelmid ex Diplolepis - Eupelmus dryohizoxeni - female

wingless chalcidoid wasp - Eupelmus dryohizoxeni - 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 Eupelmidae

Subfamily Eupelminae

Genus Eupelmus

Species dryohizoxeni (Eupelmus dryohizoxeni)

Explanation of Names

Author: Ashmead, 1886

species name was based on the generic name of the cynipid making the gall from which the type series was reared

Identification

Wings of female naturally bent in an L-shape so that about the apical half sticks up vertically. Similar in habitus to another species, Eupelmus vesicularis (Retzius). In E. vesicularis the mesoscutum and scutellum are flat, but in E. dryohizoxeni they are quite conspicuously convex so in the large image shown above the top of the thorax is somewhat M-like.

Range

Throughout the US and adjacent Canada.

Food

Relatively common parasitoid in cynipid galls

Remarks

See comment by Gary Gibson below this image.

Print References

Gibson, Gary A. 2011. The species of Eupelmus (Eupelmus) Dalman and Eupelmus (Episolindelia) Girault (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) in North America north of Mexico. Zootaxa 2951: 1–97. (PDF; see pp. 56-62)

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 29 November, 2012 - 8:22am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 15 April, 2015 - 9:41pm

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