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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any insect of the family Chalcididæ or the family Proctotrypidæ which lays its eggs in the eggs of other insects. The chalcidid subfamilies Trichogramminæ and Mymarinæ seem to be exclusively composed of egg-parasites, and the same may be said of the proctotrypid subfamily Scelioninæ. The genus Hadronotus is a parasite of the eggs of Heteroptera. H. rugosus is described by Howard from eggs supposed to be those of the cotton-stainer, Dysdercus suturellus. See cut under
cotton-worm egg-parasite .
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“The Leptus-form larva of Julus, with its strange embryological development, in some respects so like that of some worms, points in that direction, as certainly as does the embryological development of the egg-parasite”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
“Polynema, another egg-parasite, which lays its eggs (one, seldom two) in the eggs of a small dragon fly, Agrion virgo, which oviposits in the parenchyma of the leaves of waterlilies.”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
“The development of Ophloneurus, another egg-parasite, agrees with that of Platygaster and Polynema.”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
“This egg-parasite passes its early life in the eggs of Pieris brassicæ, and two or three live to reach the imago state, though about six eggs are deposited by the female.”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
“The last egg-parasite noticed by Ganin, is Teleas, whose development resembles that of Platygaster.”
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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