| PARALITOMASTIX VARIICORNIS |
| Latin name: PARALITOMASTIX VARIICORNIS |
| Order: Hymenoptera |
| Family: Hencirtidae
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| Parasitized kinds: Larvas of Anarsia lineatella |
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| Morphology and biology: |
| The Paralitomastix variicornis is a small gregarious endo-parasitoid Hymenoptera. The females depose the eggs inside the body of the larvas of the host; generally only one egg, characterized by the phenomenon of the poly-embryogenesis, for which, well soon, the larva of the host fill up with the small larvas born of the only egg. The parasitized larva is swollen and turgid, assuming a dark coloration. The parasitoid completes some generations a year, it spends the winter generally inside the host and it is active especially in full summer. |
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