Eruga
Eruga | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Ichneumonidae |
Tribe: | Ephialtini |
Genus: | Eruga Townes & Townes, 1960[1] |
Type species | |
Eruga lineata Townes & Townes, 1960 |
Eruga is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the tribe Ephialtini.[2] Some of its species are parasites of spiders in the families Tetragnathidae and Linyphiidae.[3] It consists of approximately 15 species, found in the Afrotropical, Nearctic and Neotropical regions.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Townes, Henry; Townes, Marjorie (1960). "Ichneumon-Flies of America North of Mexico: 2. Subfamilies Ephialtinae, Xoridinae, and Acaenitinae". United States National Museum Bulletin. 216 (2): 220, 238–241. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.216.1-2. hdl:10088/10225.
- ^ Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). "Order 25. Hymenoptera". American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 557. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- ^ Barrantes, Gilbert; Sandoval, Luis; Hanson, Paul (2017). "Cocoon Web Induced by Eruga telljohanni (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) in Leucauge sp. (Tetragnathidae)". Arachnology. 17 (5): 245–247. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.5.245.
- ^ Sobczak, Jober F.; Pádua, Diego G.; Costa, Letícia F. A.; Carvalho, João L. V. R.; Ferreira, João P. S.; Sobczak, Jullyana C. M. S. M.; Messas, Yuri F. (2018). "The parasitoid wasp Eruga unilabiana Pádua & Sobczak, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) induces behavioral modification in its spider host". Entomological Science. 21 (1): 59–65. doi:10.1111/ens.12278.
External links
[edit]- Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eruga Townes 1960". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018.