Endoparasitoid

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An endoparasitoid is a parasite that lives within the body of a significantly larger host organism (prefix: endo) and usually kills this host through damage caused by its nutritional behavior (postfix: oid) .

Not to be confused with the term "endoparasite" for parasites that also live in 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