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Ampulicomorpha Ashmead

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Embolemidae)

Ampulicomorpha Ashmead 1893. Type species: Ampulicomorpha confusa Ashmead 1893.

 

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Parasitoid of homopteran nymphs (Achilidae; Hemiptera)

Reference

Ashmead, W.H. 1893. Monography of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 45, 1-472.

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