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This genus contains the best known species of seed chalcids, most of them developing in leguminous seeds. In 1888, when Ashmead named the genus, he thought that its species parasitized bruchids that developed in leguminous seeds. Even after the phytophagous nature of some of the species had been clearly demonstrated, he refused to accept it. As late as 1904, long after the clover seed chalcids had been shown by competent workers to be phytophagous, he wrote: Dr. A. D. Hopkins claims that Bruchophagus funebris is phytophagous and states he has proven it by a series of experiments. I think, however, some mistake has been made and I cannot accept Dr. Hopkins' observation as conclusive. ...I am inclined to think that both Drs. Howard and Hopkins are wrong, and that Bruchophagus funebris is a parasite upon some Bruchus (Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 260).
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- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Bruchophagus: Brief Summary
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Bruchophagus is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Eurytomidae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
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