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233.  Derived from:  Legner, E. F.  1987.  Inheritance of gregarious and solitary development in Muscidifurax raptorellus Kogan & Legner (Hymenoptera:  Pteromalidae).  Canad. Entomol. 119(9):  791-808.

  

{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.}.  Yet, altho difficult to detect, occasionally a female parasitic species may cyclically modify how many eggs are deposited on a host.  The following explores the typical situation where the female parasite lays many eggs on a single host.  In honeybees, for example, the female workers select which male will be mated with a previously selected queen bee, and there is no apparent direct male role in the process.   The present account measures only adult emergence.

 

 

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[Addendum:  Parasite cultures obtained from Peru and Chile March-April 1965

Observed behavior involves survival to the adult stage ].

 

 

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