Perilitus brevicollis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Braconidae |
Genus: | Perilitus |
Species: | P. brevicollis |
Binomial name | |
Perilitus brevicollis (Haliday, 1835) |
Perilitus brevicollis is a parasitoidal insect. Like some other Hymenopterans, it can reproduce through thelytokous parthenogenesis .P. brevicollis spends most of its larval stage developing inside the blue willow beetle (Phratora vulgatissima) .