This parasitoid is a solitary ectoparasitoids of Prodoxus larvae in both fruits and stalks. Adults are metallic green/black and exhibit yellow/green-black banding on the legs. Eupelmus has been collected from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and Utah.
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.
Individual parasitoid genera
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Eupelmidae: | Eusandalum | Eupelmus |
Eurytomidae: | Eurytoma | Eudecatoma |
Braconidae: | Heterospilus | Digonogastra |