Galapagos Species Database
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Metaphycus ceros
Avispa parasitoide, Parasitoid wasp
Females of M. ceros are very distinctive from other species, due to their mainly orange body color, with the mesopleuron dark brown on posterior two-thirds. Males are similar to females, except by the body dorsum, dark brown.
Host: Ceroplastes cirripediformis
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Suborder
Apocrita
Superfamily
Chalcidoidea
Family
Encyrtidae
Genus
Metaphycus
Species
ceros
Taxon category: Accepted
- Noyes, S. (2004) Encyrtidae of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 2. Metaphycus and related genera, parasitoids of scale insects (Coccoidea) and whiteflies (Aleyrodidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 73:68
- Tavares, M.T. Santos, M.E.V., Dal Molin, A., Peronti, A.L.B.G., Sousa-Silva, C.R. (2019) Neotropical Species of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) Parasitoids of Ceroplastes (Hemiptera, Coccidae): New Species, Interaction Records, and a Checklist Neotropical entomology, 48, 633-644
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"Galapagos Species Database, Metaphycus ceros", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25105. Accessed 4 November 2026.