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    Fruit infesting tephritids [Dipt.: Tephritidae] and associated parasitoids in Chiapas, Mexico

    A total of 1,302 parasitoids representing 8 species and 4 families were recovered from 9,818 fruit fly host fruits sampled. The most common parasitoid species wasDiachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead). Average pe...

    M. Aluja, J. Guillen, P. Liedo, M. Cabrera, E. Rios, G. de la Rosa in Entomophaga (1990)

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    Are individuals from thelytokous and arrhenotokous populations equally adept as biocontrol agents? Orientation and host searching behavior of a fruit fly parasitoid

    Hymenopteran parasitoids generally reproduce by arrhenotoky, in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and females from fertilized eggs. A minority reproduce by thelytoky, in which all-female broods are de...

    Ricardo Ramirez-Romero, J. Sivinski, C. S. Copeland, M. Aluja in BioControl (2012)