- are used as
biological pest
control agents or in
scientific research.
Chalcidoids are
generally small wasps,
averaging 1.5 mm in
length and
usually being...
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distinguished from
other chalcidoids by the H-shaped
pattern of
sutures on the
front of
their heads.
Fairyflies are
among the most
common chalcidoids, but are rarely...
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Haplodiploidy is a ****-determination
system in
which males develop from
unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and
females develop from
fertilized eggs and...
- and the prepectus) can be used to
distinguish chalcidoids from
other parasitic Apocrita.
Chalcidoid wasps are
small wasps (most
within the
range 0.5–5...
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straight protibial spur (as
opposed to the larger,
curved one in most
other chalcidoids), and by
antennae with two to four
funicle segments and at most 10 antennomeres...
-
small family of
chalcidoid wasps,
formerly treated as the
subfamily Leptofoeninae within Pteromalidae. They, like many
small chalcidoids, are brilliantly...
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system and
replicates in the
oviduct of the
female wasp. One
family of
chalcidoid wasps, the Eucharitidae, has
specialized as
parasitoids of ants, most...
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Encarsia formosa is a
species of
chalcidoid wasp and a well
known parasitoid of
greenhouse whitefly, one of the
first to be used
commercially for biological...
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Herbertiidae is a
family of
chalcidoid wasps. In 2022, this
family was
described based on an
analysis of a
combination of molecular, morphological, and...
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Eurytomidae are a
family within the
superfamily Chalcidoidea.
Unlike most
chalcidoids, the
larvae of many are
phytophagous (feeding in stems, seeds, or galls)...
