Tetrastichus
{{Short description|Genus of wasps}}
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| image = Tetrastichus planipennisi D2140-19.jpg
| image_caption = Tetrastichus planipennisi
| taxon = Tetrastichus
| authority = Haliday, 1844
| type_species = Tetrastichus miser, (originally designated as Cirrospilus attalus Walker, 1839)
| type_species_authority = (Nees, 1834)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 450+ species
| synonyms = *Ceratoneuronomyia Girault, 1913
- Ennetoma Dahlbom, 1857
- Lygellus Giard, 1896
- Neotetrastichus Perkins, 1912
- Neparaprostocetus Mani, 1939
- Pseudomphaloides Girault, 1915
- Redinia Girault, 1936
- Solenoderus Motschulsky, 1863
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Tetrastichus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
Tetrastichus planipennisi is a parasitoid of the emerald ash borer, a wood boring insect native to Asia which is an invasive species in North America. T. planipennisi is being evaluated as a biological control agent.
Host species
The genus Tetrastichus parasitizes many different species of Lepidoptera, such as Pyralis farinalis.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/annotatedlistofi258cott|page=[https://archive.org/details/annotatedlistofi258cott/page/2 2]|quote=farinalis.|title=Annotated list of the insects and mites associated with stored grain and cereal products, and of their arthropod parasites and predators|last=Cotton|first=R. T.|last2=Good|first2=Newell Emanuel|last3=Agriculture|first3=United States Dept of|last4=Quarantine|first4=United States Bureau of Entomology and Plant|date=1937|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Agriculture|language=en}}
References
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- [http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/Eulophidae/index.html Key to Nearctic eulophid genera]
- [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/perth/chalcidoids/listChalcids.dsml?Superfamily=Chalcidoidea&Family=Eulophidae Universal Chalcidoidea Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310192605/http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/perth/chalcidoids/listChalcids.dsml?Superfamily=Chalcidoidea&Family=Eulophidae |date=2007-03-10 }}
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