Trichogramma
Sign in to saveTrichogramma is a genus of minute polyphagous wasps that are endoparasitoids of insect eggs. Trichogramma is one of around 80 genera from the family Trichogrammatidae, with over 200 species worldwide.
Taxonomy · GBIF
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyTrichogrammatidae
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Trichogrammatidae
- Image
- Female of Trichogramma dendrolimi on egg of armyworm (Noctuidae), photo was taken by Dr Victor Fursov.jpg
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Sensation
- Parasitism
- Identification
- ''Wolbachia'' in ''Trichogramma''
- Biological control
- Species used
- ''T. pretiosum''
- ''T. carverae''
- Species
- References
- External links
Trichogramma is a genus of minute polyphagous wasps that are endoparasitoids of insect eggs. Trichogramma is one of around 80 genera from the family Trichogrammatidae, with over 200 species worldwide.
Although several groups of egg parasitoids are commonly employed for biological control throughout the world, Trichogramma spp. have been the most extensively studied. More than a thousand papers have been published on Trichogramma species, and they are the most used biological control agents in the world.