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247.  Revised 2003 from: Legner, E. F.  1989.  Phenotypic expressions of polygenes in Muscidifurax  raptorellus [Hym.: Pteromalidae], a synanthropic fly parasitoid.  Entomophaga 34(4):  523-530.

    

     {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.

 

Summary

 

 

                       Title Page                                                                                       References

 

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