Tetrastichus

Tetrastichus
Tetrastichus planipennisi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Eulophidae
Subfamily:	Tetrastichinae
Genus:	Tetrastichus Haliday, 1844
Type species
Tetrastichus miser , (originally designated as Cirrospilus attalus Walker, 1839) (Nees, 1834)
Species
450+ species
Synonyms
Ceratoneuronomyia Girault, 1913 Ennetoma Dahlbom, 1857 Lygellus Giard, 1896 Neotetrastichus Perkins, 1912 NeparaprostocetusMani, 1939 PseudomphaloidesGirault, 1915 RediniaGirault, 1936 Solenoderus Motschulsky, 1863

Tetrastichus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.

Tetrastichus planipennisi is a parasitoid of the emerald ash borer, a wood boring insect native to Asia which is an invasive species in North America. T. planipennisi is being evaluated as a biological control agent.

Host species

The genus Tetrastichus parasitizes many different species of Lepidoptera, such as Pyralis farinalis . ^[1]

References

1. Cotton, R. T.; Good, Newell Emanuel; Agriculture, United States Dept of; Quarantine, United States Bureau of Entomology and Plant (1937). Annotated list of the insects and mites associated with stored grain and cereal products, and of their arthropod parasites and predators. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. p.  2. farinalis.

• Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
• Universal Chalcidoidea Database Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine