Eruga

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Eruga
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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

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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. hdl: 10669/76191 .
  4. ↑ 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.


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