Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
This is a specialized group of cyclostomate genera in which all species are internal parasites of lepidopterous larvae; pupation takes place within the mummified host larva which often retains its original shape.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
