Ectoparasitoid

An ectoparasitoid is a parasite that lives externally on another animal and eventually kills it.

Ectoparasitoids are commonly used as biological control agents.

Shiny black Netelia vinulae ova attached to the integument of a mature Puss moth caterpillar in the second/third thoracic and third/first abdominal inter-segmental grooves.

Related terms

• Biological control
• Ectoparasite
• Endoparasite
• Endoparasitoid
• Host
• Kleptoparasite
• Parasitoid

Related groups of terms

• General biology

Related pages on this web site

• Observations on the ova and larvae of Netelia vinulae, a gregarious ectoparasitoid of the Puss moth caterpillar

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