| 词条 | Melittobia |
| 释义 |
| name = Melittobia | image = Figure-1-Males-of-Melittobia-parasitoid-wasps-a-M-acasta-b-M-australica-Scale-05.png | image_caption = male Melittobia acasta (right) male Melittobia australica (left) | taxon = Melittobia | authority = Westwood, 1848 | type_species = Melittobia acasta | type_species_authority = (Walker, 1839) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = see Text | synonyms = *Anthophorabia Newport, 1849
| synonyms_ref = [1] }} Melittobia is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. BiologyMelittobia wasps are gregarious ectoparasitoids[1] on solitary bees, honeybee[2] and wasps, and also of any insect cohabitants of their hosts' nests, such as Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera.[3] One species has been reared from puparia of Anastrepha fruit flies collected from fallen fruits in Mexico.[4] They show intrasexual and intersexual dimorphism with the males being blind and flightless and two castes of females, one long winged and one short winged, which are probably determined by nutrition. The females exhibit primitive social traits[6] while the males are competitive ferociously fighting and killing their male siblings. The males attract the females using a pheromone and they have an elaborate courtship ritual. They have a skewed sex ration with 95% of the offspring being females which are from fertilised eggs but males are produced asexually through arrhenotoky.[3] The females have overlapping adult generations and show close ties of kinship, parental care and altruistic cooperative escape behaviors. The best studied species from which most of the information about these wasps has been derived are Melittobia acasta, Melittobia australica and Melittobia digitata.[6] These wasps are potentially economically harmful due to their lack of host specificity, fecundity, cryptic behaviour and behavioural flexibility. They have a rapid life cycle of 25 days.[3] They breed well in the laboratory and are seen as potential model organisms in the study of genetics, developmental biology and ethology.[5]DistributionMelittobia is found throughout the world.[1]SpeciesThe following species are included in the genus Melittobia:[6]
References1. ^1 {{cite journal | author1 = Antonino Cusumano | author2 = Jorge M. González | author3 = Stefano Colazza | author4 = S. Bradleigh Vinson | year = 2012 | title = First report of Melittobia australica Girault in Europe and new record of M. acasta (Walker) for Italy | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.181.2752 | journal = Zookeys | volume = 181 | pages = 45–51}} 2. ^{{cite journal | author1 = Marian Jeliński | author2 = Ferdynand Wójtowski | author3 = | author4 = | year = 1984 | title = Melittobia acasta Walker (Hym., Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) a poorly known parasite on honeybee brood | doi = | journal = Przegląd Zoologiczny | volume = 28 | pages = 507–511}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web | url = http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Chalcidoidea/Eulophidae/Melittobia/australica/| title = Melittobia australica | accessdate = 24 June 2017 | author = Jorge M. González | publisher = Discover Life}} 4. ^{{cite web | url = http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b7dbb146-6e9a-4580-bcc0-88d4a98b928d | title = Melittobia Westwood, 1848 | accessdate = 24 June 2017 | publisher = Atlas of Living Australia}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite journal | author1 = R.W. Matthews | author2 = J.M. González | author3 = J.R. Matthews | author4 =L.D. Deyrup | year = 2009 | title = Biology of the parasitoid Melittobia (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). | doi = 10.1146/annurev.ento.54.110807.090440 | journal = Annual Review of Entomology | volume = 54 | pages = 251–266}} 6. ^1 {{cite web | url = https://www.gbif.org/species/1383189 | title = Melittobia Westwood, 1848 | accessdate = 24 June 2017 | publisher = GBIF.org}}
3 : Eulophidae|Taxa named by John O. Westwood|Hymenoptera genera |
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