The Mesostoinae is a subfamily of braconid wasps with a Gondwanan distribution. The members of this family display sexual dimorphism, males are brachypterous, which means that they have reduced, non-functional wings.
The Mesostoinae is a subfamily of braconid wasps with a Gondwanan distribution. The members of this family display sexual dimorphism, males are brachypterous, which means that they have reduced, non-functional wings.
== Biology == The Mesostoini and Hydrangeocolini include primary gall formers on Banksia and parasites of the gall-forming Cecidomyiidae. The Avgini include parasitoids of leaf-mining and leaf-rolling Lepidoptera.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).