Awad, Jessica;Krogmann, Lars;Talamas, Elijah
Trichacis
Sign in to savethumb|Female specimen of Trichacis tristis, lateral habitus. Collected from Rügen Island, Germany, May 2015. Trichacis is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Platygastridae. Members of this genus have a tuft of setae on the mesoscutellum and transverse striae or rugulae above the antennae. They are parasitoids of Cecidomyiidae, although the hosts of most species remain unknown.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 161
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Platygastridae
- Collections
- USNM, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS
- Recorded in
- India, United States, Canada
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thumb|Female specimen of Trichacis tristis, lateral habitus. Collected from Rügen Island, Germany, May 2015. Trichacis is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Platygastridae. Members of this genus have a tuft of setae on the mesoscutellum and transverse striae or rugulae above the antennae. They are parasitoids of Cecidomyiidae, although the hosts of most species remain unknown.
The genus has been revised for the Nearctic, Neotropics, and Europe. There have been more than 60 species described in Trichacis; however, many of these have been since synonymized.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trichacis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.