Wasp Bibliography

Copidosoma gloriosum. Fig 200.
Fauna Iberica. Mercet

If you are interested in more information about Copidosoma Floridanus, and to give credit to my sources, here are the links for the bibliography for my post.  Also refer to the links given in that post.

Copidosoma floridanum (Wikipedia)
Sex, food and Death (Washington State Magazine)

Copidosoma floridanum (Universal Chalcidoidea Database)

Encyrtidae (Universal Chalcidoidea Database)
And you thought your family was strange - meet the wasp's

Photos of C.eriosoma caterpillars full of C.floridanum pupae

Parasitic Wasps (Encyclopdia of New Zealand)
Copidosoma sp. (bug guide)

Yet Another Caterpillar Parasitoid Wasp (The Backyard Arthropod)

Pages containing Diagrams of the Lifecycle of the wasp

Life Cycle of Copidosoma. (Nature)

Polyembrony of Insects

Life cycle of C.floridanum in its host T.ni. (Nature)

Stenocera Walkeri. Plate 596

Another Encyrtid Wasp

British Entymology/John Curtis

Spite behaviour

Spite: Evolution Gets Nasty (The Scientist)

Spite (Current Biology)

Spiteful Soldiers and Sex Ratio Conflict in Polyembryonic Parasitoid Wasps (The American Naturalist) vol. 169, no. 4

Genome Project

Copidosoma floridanum Genome Project

Other Papers

Studies on the Biology of Paracopidosomopsis/Porter

Parasitoids/Godray (Oxford University)

Evolution of polyembryony in parasitoid wasps/Segoli

Polyembryonic Proliferaton: From 2 to 2000/Gordon

Developmental patterns in the polyembryonic parasitoid wasp Copidosoma koehleri/Segoli.

Polyembryonic parasitoid Litomastix maculata and its host the green looper caterpillar Chrysodeixis eriosoma/ Roberts

Embryology of Insects and Myriapods/Johannsen (from page 316 "Litomastix floridanus")