Metazoa info

[Duke Guilmon]

Dicopomorpha echmepterygis



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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