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cuckoo_wasp
cuckoo wasp
Translingual
Chrysis inaequalis
Alternative forms
- cuckoo-wasp
Noun
cuckoo wasp (plural cuckoo wasps)
- Any of the many wasps of the family Chrysididae, that are kleptoparasites or parasitoids and are often brightly coloured.
- 1904, Experiment Station Record, Volume 15, page 280,
- In this volume the author presents an account of the ants and cuckoo wasps.
- 1916, Edward Step, Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, page 470,
- In our account of the mason-wasps, we have referred to the destruction of their grubs by the interposition of the ruby-tails or cuckoo-wasps.
- 1921, Bulletin of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volumes 25-48, page 133,
- Dr. L. H. Taylor determined the cuckoo-wasps (Chrysididae); Dr. H. T. Fernald the Sphecidae; […] .
- 1904, Experiment Station Record, Volume 15, page 280,
Synonyms
- (any species of family Chrysididae): chrysidid