Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
The members of this subfamily are internal parasites of Lepidoptera. Invariably, metopiines oviposit into the host larva and emerge as adults from the host pupa.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
