''Pteromalus puparum'', common name white butterfly pupal parasitoid wasp, is a widely distributed species of

endoparasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The ent ...

wasp that oviposits in and parasitizes

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organ ...

cocoons. It is used as a biological control of the white cabbage moth. This wasp parasitizes a number of other species, including at least 11 kinds of swallowtail butterflies.

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Pteromalidae Insects described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Apocrita-stub