Emersonella
Emersonella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Eulophidae |
Subfamily: | Entedoninae |
Genus: | Emersonella Girault, 1916 |
Type species | |
Girault, 1916
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Species | |
56 Species |
Emersonella is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. Several species are known to be phoretic parasitoids of female tortoise beetles, laying their eggs in the eggs of the beetle host.[1]
References[]
- ^ Cuignet M.P.A., Hance T., Windsor D.M. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships of egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and correlated life history characteristics of their Neotropical Cassidinae hosts (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 42:573-584.
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Categories:
- Eulophidae
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Taxa named by Alexandre Arsène Girault
- Eulophidae stubs