Cryptic diversity and female host specificity in a parasitoid where the sexes utilize hosts from separate orders.

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Investigating complex parasitic life cycles is important for understanding the major fitness components that drive the evolution of host-parasite systems. The rare condition of heterotrophic heteronomy, in which the sexes utilize disparate host taxa, is a poorly understood complex parasitic lifestyle. One of only two known examples occurs in the Myrmecolacidae, an unusual family of the parasitoid order...

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