Aleiodes

Aleiodes
	Aleiodes shakirae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Braconidae
Subfamily:	Rogadinae
Tribe:
Genus:	Aleiodes; Wesmael, 1838

Aleiodes (Greek ἀ "not", λείος "smooth", εἵδος "appearance") is a genus of the family Braconidae of parasitoid wasps described by Constantin Wesmael in 1838. They are also known as mummy-wasps. The female attacks caterpillars of various species, including many pests such as Gypsy moths and tent caterpillars, and then deposits eggs in the caterpillars. The eggs hatch and the wasp larva feeds on the caterpillar, leaving a hardened caterpillar skin, or mummy. The wasp pupates within the mummy and eventually the adult breaks out, leaving a small hole in the husk of the caterpillar.

There are thousands of species, including:

Aleiodes cacuangoi named after Dolores Cacuango
Aleiodes colberti named after Stephen Colbert
Aleiodes coxalis
named after
Aleiodes elleni named after Ellen DeGeneres
Aleiodes falloni named after Jimmy Fallon
Aleiodes frosti named after Robert Frost (American poet)
Aleiodes gaga named after Lady Gaga
Aleiodes heterogaster type species of genus
Aleiodes kingmani named after Eduardo Kingman
Aleiodes shakirae named after Shakira (Colombian singer)
Aleiodes stewarti named after Jon Stewart (American comedian)
Aleiodes tashimai

References[]

Wesmael, Constantin (1838). "Monographie de Braconides de Belgigue". Nouvelles Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Bruxelles. 11: 1–167.
"Shakira, Robert Frost, Ellen, and other famous people get wasps named after them".
"Genus Aleiodes - Mummy-wasps". BugGuide.
Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio; Shaw, Scott Richard (2014). "Twenty-four new species of Aleiodes Wesmael from the eastern Andes of Ecuador with associated biological information (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae)". ZooKeys (405): 1–81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.405.7402. PMC 4023268. PMID 24843275.
Fortier, Joseph C. (2009). "A Revision of the Tetrasphaeropyx Ashmead Lineage of the Genus Aleiodes Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 2256: 1–126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2256.1.1. ISBN 978-1-86977-417-2.

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