Tetrastichus
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| Tetrastichus | |
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| Tetrastichus planipennisi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Eulophidae |
| Subfamily: | Tetrastichinae |
| Genus: | Tetrastichus Haliday, 1844 |
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| Tetrastichus miser, (originally designated as Cirrospilus attalus Walker, 1839) (Nees, 1834)
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Tetrastichus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
Tetrastichus planipennisi is a parasitoid of the emerald ash borer, a wood boring insect native to Asia which is an invasive species in North America.
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T. setifer is a paraditoid of the scarlet lily beetle. The beetle is invasive in North America, and highly destructive to lily species; the wasp has been introduced there for biological pest control.[1][2]
T. planipennisi is being evaluated as a biological control agent.
Host species
[edit | edit source]The genus Tetrastichus parasitizes many different species of Lepidoptera, such as Pyralis farinalis.[3]
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- Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
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