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Stephanus serrator

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33: 234: 54: 281:. It is usually found in forests or other rural locations, but when recorded from Romania for the first time in 2015, the wasps were found on a timber shed in an urban environment. Other non-natural habitats where it has been observed include fencing, utility poles, wooden boarding and stacked firewood, in each case attracted by beetle larvae within. 317:. Boring may take many hours, with rests in between the boring efforts, at which times the females withdraw their ovipositors. They seem to be able to re-locate the hole they were working on when they recommence boring. As the ovipositor is pushed deeper into the wood, the sheath arches upwards in a loop. 272:
is known from Spain, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Adults can be found on and around trees that have been dead for about a year and which contain beetle larvae, but which have not yet been invaded
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spp. sometimes feed on the wasps, but the wasps usually manage to evade them. Female wasps that are trying to locate beetle larvae in wood adopt a characteristic posture with fore and hind legs spread widely, middle legs folded tightly against the body, antennae lowered and ovipositor sheath pressed
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parts. When fully developed they pupate in the galleries left by the beetle larvae. Male wasps emerge some ten days before the females and adopt a similar search posture, perhaps waiting for the females to emerge.
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against the wood; they then move a few centimetres to a new location and repeat the process. When a potential target is located, the ovipositor is bored into the
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of 11.4 mm (0.45 in). The slender body and legs are black, apart from the front half of the abdomen and certain leg segments, which are red.
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The eggs are laid in the galleries created by the beetle larvae. The developing wasp larvae feed on the beetle larvae, rejecting the most heavily
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Stephanid wasps are known as crown wasps because the top of the wasp's head bears a group of five tubercles. The somewhat elongated
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averages 9.5 mm (0.37 in) in length and the female 13 mm (0.51 in), with an
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Hong Chun-dan; van Achterberg, Cornelis & Xu Zai-fu (2011).
481: 253:, and the ventral side of the hind femur bears teeth. The male 277:; this wasp has been recorded parasitising several different 451:
Hausl-Hoffstatter, Ulrike & Bojar, Hans-Peter (2016).
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ovipositing
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Stephanidae
Stephanus
Binomial name
Fabricius
Synonyms
species
Stephanidae
parasitoids
beetles
Female of the species Stephanus serrator resting on a leaf
prothorax
propodeum
petiole
ovipositor
fungi
host species
parasitoid
beetles
Nuctenea umbratica
Parasteatoda
substrate

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