Ectoparasitoid

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An ectoparasitoid is a parasite that feeds on the outside of the body of a larger host organism (prefix: ekto) and usually kills this host through damage due to the deep tissue damage (postfix: oid) . The host may also be consumed completely.

Not to be confused with the term "ectoparasite" for parasites that also eat or suckle from outside the host, but usually do not kill it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Enzeroth: What are Parasitoids? (Teaching material), Department of Special Zoology and Parasitology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, TU-Dresden, 2011. What are Parasitoids? ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 1.7 MB), accessed on September 8, 2016