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Vanhorniidae
Vanhorniidae is a family parasitic wasps belonging to the Proctotrupoidea. There are only two extant genera, '' Heloriserphus'' and '' Vanhornia,'' which are native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are parasitoids of beetle larvae belonging to the family Eucnemidae Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles including about 1700 species distributed worldwide. Description Closely related to the family Elateridae, specimens of Eucnemidae can reach a length of . Bodies are slight .... References Proctotrupoidea Apocrita families {{apocrita-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanhornia
''Vanhornia'' is a genus of parasitic wasps. Of the four known species, ''V. eucnemidarum'' (type) is widespread across North America, ''V. leileri'' is widespread across the Palearctic, ''V. quizhouensis'' is found in South China and Thailand, and ''V. yurii'' is found in Northeast Asia. Members of ''Vanhornia'' are parasitoids on beetles belonging to the family Eucnemidae Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles including about 1700 species distributed worldwide. Description Closely related to the family Elateridae, specimens of Eucnemidae can reach a length of . Bodies are slight .... Species * '' Vanhornia eucnemidarum'' Crawford, 1909 * '' Vanhornia leileri'' Hedqvist, 1976 * '' Vanhornia quizhouensis'' (He & Chu 1990) * '' Vanhornia yurii'' Timokhov & Belokobylskij, 2020 References Parasitic wasps Articles created by Qbugbot Proctotrupoidea {{apocrita-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proctotrupoidea
Proctotrupoidea is a hymenopteran superfamily containing seven extant families, though others have been recognized in the past, most of these having been removed to a recently erected superfamily Diaprioidea. Of the remaining families, only Proctotrupidae contains a substantial number of species, with over 400 described. The others are small, often relictual groups. See links for individual families for details of life history and diversity. See also Tree of Life Apocrita shows polyphyletic Proctotrupoidea. References Apocrita superfamilies {{Apocrita-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parasitoids
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strategy close to predation. Among parasitoids, strategies range from living inside the host (''endoparasitism''), allowing it to continue growing before emerging as an adult, to paralysing the host and living outside it (''ectoparasitism''). Hosts can include other parasitoids, resulting in hyperparasitism; in the case of oak galls, up to five levels of parasitism are possible. Some parasitoids influence their host's behaviour in ways that favour the propagation of the parasitoid. Parasitoids are found in a variety of taxa across the insect superorder Endopterygota, whose complete metamorphosis may have pre-adapted them for a split lifestyle, with parasitoid l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucnemidae
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles including about 1700 species distributed worldwide. Description Closely related to the family Elateridae, specimens of Eucnemidae can reach a length of . Bodies are slightly flattened and convex. The upper surfaces of the body usually has hairs, setae or scales. Ecology The larvae are typically legless, and generally develop feeding on the fluids of rotting wood, likely vomiting digestive enzymes into the wood to break apart the fungal hyphae, moving using their shovel shaped heads to force apart the wood. Adults, which are typically found on broken surfaces of trunks and stumps, have a short lifespan and it is unclear whether they feed, though they are capable fliers, and like some other elateroids are capable of clicking. Taxonomy Subfamilies * Anischiinae Fleutiaux, 1936 * Eucneminae Eschscholtz, 1829 * Macraulacinae Fleutiaux, 1922 * Melasinae Leach, 1817 * Palaeoxeninae Muona, 1993 * Perotho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
