family Chalcidae

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family Chalcidae - an arthropod family including: chalcidflies

Chalcidae, Chalcididae, family Chalcididae

arthropod family - any of the arthropods

Hymenoptera, order Hymenoptera - an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.

chalcid, chalcid fly, chalcid wasp, chalcidfly - any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects

jointworm, strawworm - larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

Chalcis, genus Chalcis - type genus of the Chalcididae

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In addition, 2 larval parasitoids of the family Chalcidae associated with the exotic cactus moth were identified.

Host specificity and risk assessment of trichogramma fuentesi (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), a potential biological agent of cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)