Figs. 1–4 in Hospicidal Behavior of the Cleptoparasitic Wasp Sapyga luteomaculata And Investigation into Ontogenetic Changes in Its Larval Anatomy (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Sapygidae)

Figs. 1–4. Macrophotographs of live eggs and larvae of Sapyga luteomaculata. 1. Two eggs of cleptoparasite floating on provisions in host cell with host egg at bottom of picture. 2. Same cell as in fig. 1, later, first cleptoparasite egg now hatched leaving chorion behind and first instar attacking other cleptoparasite, which has hatched or is about to hatch; host egg not yet killed. 3. First instar in another cell attacking host egg that is already flaccid. 4. Second instar, showing navicular shape and scalloped lateral outline. 5. Third instar, showing well-defined, opaque yellowish meconial mass at rear of body. 6. Fecal pellets on abdominal apex of feeding fourth instar, showing their shape, darkness in coloration, and, on some, taillike process at apices; note small but projecting apical abdominal segment 10 of actively feeding, defecating larva.