Lathrolestes luteolator
Lathrolestes luteolator | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Ichneumonidae |
Genus: | Lathrolestes |
Species: | L. luteolator
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Binomial name | |
Lathrolestes luteolator (Gravenhorst, 1829)[1]
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Synonyms[1] | |
Lathrolestes luteolator is a
Ecology
Like other parasitic wasps in the family Ichneumonidae, the adult female L. luteolator uses its ovipositor to lay eggs inside the body of its prey, usually the larval stage of a sawfly larva, often a leaf miner. When the eggs hatch, the carnivorous larvae live in and consume the body of their host. Various sawfly larvae are attacked including the red oak leaf miner (Profenusa alumna).[3] In Alberta, the host is the "pear slug" (Caliroa cerasi), which is not a mollusc but the larva of a sawfly.[2]
However, in Alberta in the early 1990s, the wasp adopted a new host and started parasitising the
By 2003 the range of the amber-marked birch leaf miner had extended into Alaska, and it was spreading, first throughout the
References
- ^ a b c "Lathrolestes luteolator (Gravenhorst, 1829)". Catalogue of Life. ITIS. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ ISBN 0-662-34882-6.
- ^ "Cover illustration" (PDF). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada. 28 (1). 1996.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4289-6595-9.