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The families and subfamilies of Canadian Chalcidoid wasps

6 Mar 2010

The egg is laid either outside or inside the host with the use of the ovipositor, which may be narrow and long as in the Torymidae or short and stubby as in the Eulophidae. [...] In the aphelinids, the development of the male and female in the reproductive phase is expressed by the following terminology. [...] The development thereafter (3-5 instars), tends to change to the usual hymenopterous type with a full complement of l0 spiracles,12 or 13 visible segments, the greatest body width in the region of the thorax and first abdominal segment, and the lack of sculpturing, or segmented, processes on the first abdominal segment. [...] Within the Hymenoptera, adults of this superfamily are recognizable by the posterior margin of the pronotum touching the tegula, as in some specieiof Mymaridae and Mymarommatidae, or not touching the-tegula (in the latter case, the pronotum is separated from the tegula by the prepectus (FiS. [...] The compound eyes, which generally occupy the greater part of the side of the head, are the most obvious landmark.
biology insects zoology organisms arthropod leg femur anatomical terms of location insect wing insect morphology frons tarsus parasitism trochanter coxa simple eye in invertebrates venation tibial spurs antennae ocellus parthenogenesis mymaridae
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154
Published in
Ottawa

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