This parasitoid is a solitary endoparasitoid of moth larvae in both fruits and inflorescence stalks. To date, it has only been found from Prodoxus larvae although there is the possibility that Tegeticula larvae may also be attacked. It is characterized from the other yucca moth parasitoids by having a black bar/spot on the forewings. Eudecatoma flamminneiventris has been collected from southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado.
Photos used with permission from Michael Thompson's Master Thesis "Parasitoids of the Bogus Yucca Moth (Prodoxus marginatus Riley). 1980. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Egg of E. flamminneiventris Larva of E. flamminneiventris
Current knowledge of host range
| Species attacked in fruits |
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Species attacked in inflorescence stalk | ||
| Moth species | Yucca species | . | Moth species | Yucca species |
| Pro. marginatus | Y. whipplei | . | Pro. cinerus/P. aenescens | Y. whipplei |
| Pro. sordidus | Y. brevifolia | . | Pro. coloradensis | Y. schidigera |
| Pro. y-inversus | Y. schottii | . | . | Y. torreyi |
| . | . | . | . | Y. treculeana |
| . | . | . | Pro. n. sp. | Y. brevifolia. |
| . | . | . | Pro. quinquepunctellus | Y. angustissima |
| . | . | . | . | Y. elata |
| . | . | . | . | Y. glauca |
| . | . | . | . | Y. harrimaniae |
| . | . | . | . | Y. kanabensis |
| . | . | . | Agavenema | Agave spp. |
Last updated July 2001; David Althoff