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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Mendesellinae » Epsilogaster

Genus Epsilogaster

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Food · Works Cited
Centistidea ex Mompha n. sp. - Epsilogaster - female Centistidea ex Mompha n. sp. - Epsilogaster - 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 Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)
Family Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)
Subfamily Mendesellinae
Genus Epsilogaster
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
First described by Whitfield and Mason in 1994. (Whitfield, J.B. 1997. Subfamily Mendesellinae. In:(1).
Explanation of Names
Authors: Whitfield & Mason
Size
Tiny; less than 3 mm.
Identification
See Braconidae ID
Fig. 6A. Lateral tergites of first metasomal segment desclerotized (exoskeleton very thin, soft)
Figs. 5C, 6B. Often, central areas of second metasomal termite desclerotized
Fig. 5B. Fore wing with at least partly tubular r-m cross-vein; thus a closed second submarginal cell.
-For labeled diagrams of wings and body parts see pp. 98-99, downloadable PDF, Fortier 2009:(2).
Food
The known hosts are Mompha species.
Works Cited
1.Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)
Wharton, R.A., P.M. Marsh, M.J. Sharkey (Eds). 1997. International Society of Hymenopterists.
2.A Revision of the Tetrasphaeropyx Ashm. Lineage of the Genus Aleiodes Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae)
Fortier, Joseph C. 2009. Magnolia Press.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 16 March, 2014 - 12:10am
Additional contributions by josephfortier
Last updated 27 April, 2015 - 1:23pm

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