- adelphoparasite
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n. [Gr. adelphos, brother; para, beside; sitos, food](ARTHROPODA: Insecta)A heteronomous hyperparasitoid.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
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heteronomous hyperparasitoid — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Hymenoptera, a species in Adelinidae in which the female develops as a hyperparasitoid of one host, while the male develops as a normal parasitoid on another host; an adelphoparasite; see diaphagous parasitoid,… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
