This parasitoid is a solitary ectoparasitoid of moth larvae in both fruits and inflorescence stalks. It attacks both Prodoxus and Tegeticula larvae. Adults are black and have distinctive red eyes. The thorax is stippled with pits. Eurytoma has been collected from southern California, northern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas.
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.
| 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. carnerosana |
| Pro. y-inversus | Y. schottii | . | . | Y. schidigera |
| Teg. mojavella | Y. schidigera | . | Pro. n. sp. | .Y. brevifolia |
| Teg. synthetica | Y. brevifolia | . | Pro. ochrocarus | Y. schottii |
| Teg. elatella | Y. elata | . | Pro. quinquepunctellus | Y. campestris |
| . | . | . | . | Y. glauca |
Last updated July 2001; David Althoff