Eupelmus spp.

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Host range data

 

This parasitoid is a solitary ectoparasitoid of moth larvae in both fruits and inflorescence stalks. It attacks both Prodoxus and Tegeticula larvae. Adults are a metallic green/black and exhibit a yellow/green-black banding pattern on the legs (see picture). Eupelmus has been collected from southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Tennessee.

 

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.

Adult female probing in fruit of Yucca whipplei

 

                           
                                          Eupelmus egg                                Eupelmus larva on Prodoxus marginatus larva

 

Eupelmus male and female pupae

 Current knowledge of host range

Pro. = Prodoxus; Teg.= Tegeticula

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/Pro. aenescens Y. whipplei
Pro. sordidus Y. brevifolia . Pro. coloradensis Y. schidigera
Teg. yuccasella Y. filamentosa . . Y. treculeana
Pro. n. sp. Y. carnerosana . Pro. n. sp. Y. brevifolia
. . . Pro. ochrocarus Y. schotti
. . . Pro. quinquepunctellus Y. elata
. . . . Y. glauca
. . . . Y. glauca arkan.

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Last updated July 2001; David Althoff