- khalkos 'copper', for
their metallic colour) are
insects within the
superfamily Chalcidoidea, part of the
order Hymenoptera. The
superfamily contains some 22,500...
- Fig
wasps are
wasps of the
superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside fig syconia. Some are
pollinators but
others simply feed off...
- tegula prepectus mesothoracic spiracle head The
superfamily Chalcidoidea is a
megadiverse group of
parasitic wasps that
share these features:...
-
parasitoid wasps include some very
large groups, some
estimates giving the
Chalcidoidea as many as 500,000 species, the
Ichneumonidae 100,000 species, and the...
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groups (polyphyletic). In essence, a "pteromalid" was any
member of the
Chalcidoidea that had five-segmented
tarsi and did not have the
defining features...
- Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp. 89–109. UCD Community. 2023.
Universal Chalcidoidea Database Website. https://ucd.chalcid.org.
Accessed on 11 July, 2024...
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ectoparasitoid hymenopteran in the
family Pteromalidae,
superfamily Chalcidoidea. It
parasitizes small beetle larvae concealed in seeds, as well as prepupae...
- ("altruism").
Wasps in this
family are
relatively easy to
separate from
other Chalcidoidea by
features of the wing venation, the
migration of the
cerci forwards...
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flower pollen with them.
Several non-pollinating wasp
species of the
Chalcidoidea exploit the mutualism.
Sycophaga sycomori oviposits inside the short-style...
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Trichogrammatidae are a
family of
small endoparasitoid wasps in the
superfamily Chalcidoidea that
include some of the
smallest of all insects, with most
species having...
