#hyperparasite

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Hyperparasite Perilampid wasps, Perilampidae, Chalcidoidea

As a hyperparasite, Perilampid wasp larvae seek out a primary host insect (such as a caterpillar) and burrow into its body in search of their secondary host (such as a parasitoid wasp or tachinid fly larva), which they then parasitize. Photo 10 shows free-living larvae in search of a primary host among aphids.

Photo 1-2 by ibycter, 3-4 by danabarb, 5 by Judy Gallagher, 6 by nbdragonflyguy, 7 by efarilis, 8 by jessat, 9 (for scale) by bannk, and 10 by Beatriz Moisset

[drhoz]

#1842 - Fam. Eulophidae

A minute wasp attracted to a light trap in Samson, Perth, Western Australia.

Most likely a parasite of Torymid gall-forming wasps, according to Andras Szito at the AgDept, who identified it for me and only managed to do so because he’d received a gall-infested eucalypt to ID the same day. 

As he said “Microhymenoptera is a separate world. Mr Boucek, the author of the Australian Chalcidoidea book, once stated; after 30 years of studying them you can say that you started to get to know them. Who has 30 years to study them? I remember, there are genera with well over one thousand species in them. Since most parasitic wasps are highly host specific, I am sure their species number well exceeds the beetle species number.”

Eulophids are tiny, and difficult to study, but most of the 4300+ species are parasitoids of other arthropods. At least one is a parasitoid of aquatic beetles. Many are host-specific, but Aprostocetus hagenowii which is used as a biocontrol of cockroaches in the US, also targets bark beetles and hatchet wasps - the latter themselves parasitoids of cockroach eggs. 

[usgsbiml]

A perilampid (Euperilampus triangularis).  Tiny little metallic armored knights.  Really tiny, only a couple of millimetres.  You can find them in the wilds of vegetation if you hunker down and look inside the grass and forb canopy of fields, where they sit upon leaves like little blue teardrops.  Hyperparasite of other parasitic larvae living inside a host like a caterpillar.  After hatching on the vegetation their little vaguely silverfish like larvae find a host that has been attacked by another bigger parasite burrows in and finds the other parasitic larvae and parasitises the primary parasite of the host not the host itself.  Nature can be tricky. ... and beautiful.   

[satoshi-mochida]

The 2020 Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition, which offers free-to-play demos and spotlights a selection of new and upcoming games, will run from March 18 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET to March 23 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m.

The Steam showcase features over 40 titles from studios that originally planned to exhibit at showcases such as the Indie Megabooth, Day of the Devs, and The Mix during GDC 2020, which was postponed to summer.

Here is the full list of games with demos:

Indie Megabooth Demos

Backworlds (Logic Ember Limited) – Play for Free

Duster (Coldrice Games)

Evan’s Remains (Whitethorn Digital / maitan69)

Filament (Kasedo Games / Beard Envy)

Going Under (Team17 / AggroCrab)

Hundred Days: Wine Making Simulator (Broken Arms Games)

HyperParasite (Troglobyte Games / Hound Picked Games) – Play for Free

Neon Noodles (Vivid Helix) – Play for Free

Mystic Pillars (Holy Cow Productions) – Play for Free

Quench (Axon Interactive) – $9.99

Tunche (HypeTrain Digital / LEAP Game Studios)

Sons of Ra (Pharaoh Hound Games)

Superliminal (Pillow Castle Games)

We Are the Caretakers (Heart Shaped Games)

We should talk. (Whitethorn Digital / Insatiable Cycle)

Wings Fund Demos

Later Daters (Bloom Digital Media)

Lord Winklebottom Investigates (Cave Monsters)

Pushy and Pully in Blockland (Resistance Studio)

Day of the Devs

Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Finji / Greg Lobanov)

Heavenly Bodies (2pt Interactive)

The Mix

Aeolis Tournament (Beyond Fun Studio)

A Space for the Unbound (Toge Productions / Mojiken Studio)

Coffee Talk (Toge Productions) – Play for Free

Curious Expedition 2 (Thunderful Publishing / Maschinen-Mensch)

Divisadero (Team2Bit)

Eldest Souls (United Label / Fallen Flag Studio)

EleMetals: Death Metal Death Match! (Wallride)

Embr (Muse Games)

Garden Story (VIZ Media / Rose City Games)

Haven (The Game Bakers)

Hazel Sky (Another Indie / Coffee Addict Studio)

Liberated (L.INC / Walkabout / Atomic Wolf)

Jack Axe (Another Indie / Keybol / Mike Studios)

Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl (Interabang Entertainment / Spoony Bard Productions)

Mighty Fight Federation (Komi Games) – Play for Free

Neverinth (Another Indie / CreAct Games) – $15.99

Operencia: The Stolen Sun (Zen Studios)

Klang 2 (Tinimations)

KungFu Kickball (Blowfish Studios / WhaleFood Games)

Moncage (Optillusion)

Raj: An Ancient Epic (Super.com / Nodding Head Games)

Recompile (Dear Villagers / Phigames)

Retrograde Arena (Another Indie / Freemergency)

Rising Hell (Toge Productions / Another Indie / Tahoe Games) – Play for Free

Roki (United Label / Polygon Treehouse)’

She Dreams Elsewhere (Studio Zevere)

Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)

Vigil: The Longest Night (Another Indie / Glass Heart Games)

When the Past Was Around (Toge Productions / Mojiken Studio)

[nintendocafe]

HyperParasite is coming to Nintendo Switch

A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.

[alpha-beta-gamer]

Hyperparasite is a fast, fun and stylish twin-stick shooter where you control a Venom-esque alien parasite that can take over the bodies of enemies!

Read More & Play The Kickstarter Demo Build, Free (Steam)

[aphidcluster]

Ampelomyces quisqualis -hyperparasite fungus producing conidiospores (small spores) on its host fungus (Erysiphe azalea; bigger hyaline spores) that lives on Rhododendron azalea.

[drhoz]

#1520 - Fam. Ichneumonidae Tribe Phygadeuontini

Under 10mm, shaken out of psyllid-infested eucalypt out at the Dryandra Woodlands. 

The Phygadeuontini is part of the Cryptinae subfamily of the Ichneumonid wasps, but Wikipedia claims that there’s 18 genera and 12 described species in Phygadeuontini. I’m sure you can see the problem there. There’s at least 270 in the genus Gelis alone. 

I don’t have any information on the tribe in general, but all the ones I’ve been able to track down are parasites of other wasps and sawflies. In fact, both Lysibia nana and Gelis agilis are pupal hyperparasitoids of the Braconid wasp Cotesia glomerata. Cotesia is a parasite of the Cabbage White butterflies, and all three wasps use the same chemical clues to find a host - the alarm chemicals produced by the plant the caterpillar is eating.The hyperparasites show up looking for the wasp the cabbage was hoping for.