RE: Metazoa info
August 17, 2015 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2015 at 7:03 pm by IATIA.)
Dicopomorpha echmepterygis
![[Image: Dicopomorpha_echmepterygis.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Dicopomorpha_echmepterygis.jpg)
Size: male - 0.139 mm (smaller than the single celled paramecium - 0.250 mm) / female - 40% larger
This species from Costa Rica is an idiobiont parasitoid of the eggs of a lepidopsocid barklouse, Echmepteryx hageni. The adult males mate with their sisters inside the host egg, and die without ever leaving the egg; similar life histories can be found in the wasp family Trichogrammatidae, also in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Chalcidoidea
Family: Mymaridae
Genus: Dicopomorpha
Ogloblin, 1955
Species: D. echmepterygis
(source; wikipedia)
Other sources:
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir/c...r_38.shtml
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dico...epterygis/
Size: male - 0.139 mm (smaller than the single celled paramecium - 0.250 mm) / female - 40% larger
This species from Costa Rica is an idiobiont parasitoid of the eggs of a lepidopsocid barklouse, Echmepteryx hageni. The adult males mate with their sisters inside the host egg, and die without ever leaving the egg; similar life histories can be found in the wasp family Trichogrammatidae, also in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Chalcidoidea
Family: Mymaridae
Genus: Dicopomorpha
Ogloblin, 1955
Species: D. echmepterygis
(source; wikipedia)
Other sources:
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir/c...r_38.shtml
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dico...epterygis/
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