Biology
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Solitary
ectoparasitoid of cocooned pupae and prepupae of Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) (Rao
1953, Townes et al. 1960, Carlson 1979, Kusigemati 1981, Higa 1983, Gauld 2000).
Could either be idiobiont or koinobiont parasitoids (Bennett 2009), although
phylogenetic evidence in combination with the toothed ovipositor suggests they
are idiobiont ectoparasitoids (Broad et al. 2018, Di Giovanni & Varga, 2021). |
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