Aleiodes (genus - parasitoids)
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Aleiodes Wesmael, 1838 - (mummy wasps)
This is a large genus of parasitoid wasps with several hundred species and a world-wide distribution. They are solitary, koinobiont, synovigenic endoparasitoids which use caterpillars from various Lepidoptera families as hosts, including Erebidae, Geometridae, Hesperiidae and Noctuidae (van Achterberg & Shaw, 2016).
The host caterpillars are killed by the endoparasitoid and “mummified” which means they turn into a hardened structure. Several species of Aleiodes are parasitoids of pests like Spodoptera frugiperda or Plathypena scabra.
Type species: Aleiodes albitibia (designated as Aleiodes heterogaster).
Currently, the following species have been entered into the system:
