EURYTOMA PISSODIS GIRAULT, 1917

Eurytoma pissodis Girault, 1917: 86–89 . Original description. USA: Minnesota. Stark & Wood, 1964: 1217.

Host: Pissodes terminalis Hopping, 1920; Stevenson, 1967: 206–210. Host: Pissodes engelmanni Hopkins, 1911; van der Sar, 1978: 14–18. Host: Pissodes strobi (Peck, 1817) .

Hosts and biology

The hosts are curculionids of the genus Pissodes living in various pines and spruces in the USA and Canada. Stevenson (1967) described the life cycle of the parasitoid, which is univoltine. The larvae feed externally on their host.