Phylogenetic shifts in patterns of endoparasitism in the Chalcidoidea

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 1:32 PM
Meeting Room 4 ABC (Austin Convention Center)
John Heraty , Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA
Shifts between endoparasitism and ectoparasitism with development of an individual larval cycle are rare. These shifts will be examined across Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera), but with an emphasis on the an-parasitic Eucharitidae and their sister group, the Perilampidae.