Eudecatoma

Eudecatoma is a solitary endoparasitoid that attacks Prodoxus larvae. It is distinguished from all other yucca moth parasitoids by having a black bar/spot on the wings. Eudecatoma has been collected Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Photos

Female Eudecatoma on Yucca fruit
Female Eudecatoma on Yucca fruit
Eudecatoma pupa
Eudecatoma pupa

Photos used with permission from Michael Thompson’s Masters Thesis “Parasitoids of the Bogus Yucca Moth (Prodoxus Marginatus Riley). 1980. California State Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, CA.

 

 

eudecatoma table

Individual parasitoid genera

Click on the links below to learn more about each genus.

Eupelmidae:   | Eusandalum | Eupelmus |

Eurytomidae: | Eurytoma | Eudecatoma |

Braconidae:   | Heterospilus | Digonogastra |