Perilitus brevicollis
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| Species: | P. brevicollis
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| Perilitus brevicollis (Haliday, 1835)
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Perilitus brevicollis is a parasitoidal insect. Like some other Hymenopterans, it can reproduce through thelytokous parthenogenesis .[1] P. brevicollis spends most of its larval stage developing inside the blue willow beetle (Phratora vulgatissima) .[2]
References
- ^ K.O. Baffoe; P. Dalin; G. Nordlander; J.A. Stenberg (2012). "PImportance of temperature for the performance and biocontrol efficiency of the parasitoid Perilitus brevicollis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on Salix". Biological Control. 57: 611–618. doi:10.1007/s10526-012-9443-5.
- ^ J.A. Stenberg (2012). "Plant-mediated effects of different Salix species on the performance of the braconid parasitoid Perilitus brevicollis". Biological Control. 60: 54–58. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2011.09.004.