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Image of Horismenus

Image of Horismenus

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Figure 1. Camponotus sp. ca. textor larva parasitized by Horismenus myrmecophagus. H. myrmecophagus develops as a gregarious endoparasitoid. The ant larva has been cut open (its head is at the bottom of the picture). Several pupae of the eulophid parasitoid may be observed, some of them still inside the ant larva.

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Christer Hansson, Jean-Paul Lachaud, Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud
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Hansson C, Lachaud J, Pérez-Lachaud G (2011) Entedoninae wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) associated with ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in tropical America, with new species and notes on their biology ZooKeys 134: 65–82
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zookeys.134.1653.sp_1_p_1