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Laelius voracis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionFeb 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ137485490 ↗
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Laelius voracis is a hymenopteran parasitoid in the family Bethylidae. It is a gregarious idiobiont larval ectoparasitoid of the furniture carpet beetle, Anthrenus flavipes, a small beetle in the family Dermestidae. It has been reported from the USA (Washington, D. C.) and from India.

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Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Laelius, voracis and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Laelius voracis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.