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hyperparasite Zool.|-ˈpærəsaɪt|
[f. hyper- 1 + parasite.]
An animal parasitic upon a parasite, as certain insects in the larval state. So hyperparaˈsitic a., parasitic on or in a parasite; hyperˈparasitism, the condition of being hyperparasitic, as exemplified by certain Ichneumonidæ and Chalcididæ, the larvæ of which live in the bodies of other insect parasites.
1833A. H. Haliday in Entomol. Mag. I. 482, I am not aware that any of them [sc. a group of ichneumons] are hyperparasitic. 1886Nature 6 May 16/2 About 25 species of the various parasitic and hyper-parasitic groups [of ants]. 1889Cent. Dict., Hyperparasite, hyperparasitism. 1897L. O. Howard Study in Insect Parasitism 14 Many parasites suffer..from the attacks of hyperparasites. 1906J. W. Folsom Entomol. x. 312 (heading) Hyperparasitism. 1914Entomologist XLVII. 77 C. W. Colthrup sent me..two females which he had captured with three specimens of the hyperparasite Hemiteles areator. 1932E. Step Bees, Wasps, Ants 185 These parasites [sc. Braconidæ]..are in turn attacked by still smaller species—hyperparasites. 1951G. Lapage Parasitic Animals ix. 264 Many species of Hymenoptera implant their eggs inside the bodies of other parasitic insects, so that they provide good examples of hyperparasitism. 1952A. Lysaght tr. Caullery's Parasitism & Symbiosis vi. 108 Sometimes, too, under new conditions, a parasite changes into a hyperparasite. 1964T. C. Cheng Biol. Animal Parasites 143/1 Various species of Nosema and Glugea are capable of hyperparasitism in larval and adult helminths. Ibid., One species of Nosema..is hyperparasitic in tapeworms. |