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254. Revised 2003 from: Legner, E. F. 1991a. Estimations of number of active loci, dominance and heritability in polygenic inheritance of gregarious behavior in Muscidifurax raptorellus [Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae]. Entomophaga 36(1): 1-18.

{NOTE: All Muscidifurax females regularly superparasitize their hosts (i.e., deposit more than one egg on a host pupa).

However, in gregarious sibling species development results in the survival of more than one individual to the adult stage.

In solitary species only a single individual survives to the adult stage. Although the number of eggs laid on a host may

also influence survival number, the present account measures only adult emergence.

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[Please refer also to Related Research #1; #2 , Extended Treatment ►]