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Tetrastichus coeruleus
Species of wasp From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tetrastichus coeruleus is a gregarious koinobiont wasp which can be used as a biological control agent for the common asparagus beetle.[1]
It was originally named Tetrastichus asparagi Crawford,[2] thus most of the literature about this species has been published under this other name.[3]
Tetrastichus coeruleus has populations which are infected with the parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia and populations which are not.[4]
On average, 4.75 T. coeruleus adults emerge per larva, though this ranges between 2 and 13 specimens per larva.[5]
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