Wednesday 16 February 2022

Hidden Diversity: When One Wasp Species is Actually 16 | Entomology Today

Cryptic species of Ormyrus labotus

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A tiny parasitoid wasp species, long considered a generalist with more than 65 different host species, is revealed in a new study to actually comprise at least 16 different species, identical in appearance but genetically distinct.

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