Tachinobia repanda (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from egg sacs of a colonial spider, Cyrtophora moluccensis (Araneae: Araneidae) in Papua New Guinea

Zoya A. Yefremova; Yael Lubin

doi:10.1093/jisesa/ieaa104

Tachinobia repanda (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from egg sacs of a colonial spider, Cyrtophora moluccensis (Araneae: Araneidae) in Papua New Guinea

Zoya A. Yefremova, Yael Lubin

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

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We report the discovery of the wasp Tachinobia repanda Bouèek collected from egg sacs of the colonial spider Cyrtophora moluccensis (Doleschall) in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG) by Lubin, Y.D. in 1980. This is the first record of T. repanda from egg sacs of a colonial spider. The likely host of this eulophid wasp was the larvae of a sarcophagid fly that parasitizes the egg sacs of these spiders. The 67 T. repanda collected were all females and varied little in body size. We suggest that this species is a gregarious hyperparasitoid.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Insect Science
Volume	20
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieaa104
State	Published - 1 Sep 2020

Keywords

Gregarious endoparasitoid
Hyperparasitoid
Sarcophagid fly
Tetrastichinae wasp

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Tachinobia repanda (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from egg sacs of a colonial spider, Cyrtophora moluccensis (Araneae: Araneidae) in Papua New Guinea

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