Trichogrammatidae
Sign in to savethumb|A female Hydrophylita emporos on a female Psolodesmus mandarinus mandarinus.
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyTrichogrammatidae
All members of this family are parasites in the eggs of other insects. Their thoracic structures show them to have affinities with the Eulophidae, but they must have diverged from the eulophid stem at some remote time in chalcidoid evolution. Since all trichogrammatids have 3-segmented tarsi, lack the strigil of the foretibia, have greatly reduced antennae, never have the abdomen petiolate, and the forewing usually bears characteristic lines of cilia, they are widely separated from their nearest relatives in the Eulophidae.
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thumb|A female Hydrophylita emporos on a female Psolodesmus mandarinus mandarinus.
The Trichogrammatidae are a family of small endoparasitoid wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea that include some of the smallest of all insects, with most species having adults less than 1 mm in length, with species of Megaphragma having an adult body length less than 300 μm. Over 840 species are placed in about 80 genera; their distribution is worldwide.