Tetrastichus coeruleus
Species of wasp
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Tetrastichus coeruleus is a gregarious koinobiont wasp which can be used as a biological control agent for the common asparagus beetle.[1]
| Tetrastichus coeruleus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Eulophidae |
| Genus: | Tetrastichus |
| Species: | T. coeruleus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tetrastichus coeruleus (Nees, 1834) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tetrastichus asparagi Crawford, 1909 | |
It was originally named Tetrastichus asparagi Crawford,[2] thus most of the literature about this species has been published under this other name.[3]
Tetrastichus coeruleus has populations which are infected with the parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia and populations which are not.[4]
On average, 4.75 T. coeruleus adults emerge per larva, though this ranges between 2 and 13 specimens per larva.[5]
