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Encarsia citri

Status not recordedbees wasps and ants

Encarsia citri is a species in the family Aphelinidae, order Hymenoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Japan.

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Quick facts about Encarsia citri

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Encarsia citri live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Encarsia citri is listed for 1 country.

Japan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Japan

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Encarsia citri endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Encarsia citri classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHymenoptera
  5. familyAphelinidae
  6. genusEncarsia
  7. SpeciesEncarsia citri (Ishii, 1938)

Synonyms Prospaltella citri

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Encarsia citri

Other species in the same genus Encarsia.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Encarsia citri live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Encarsia citri for 1 country: Japan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Encarsia citri?

Encarsia citri (Encarsia citri) belongs to the family Aphelinidae in the order Hymenoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Encarsia citri (Encarsia citri). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/encarsia-citri

MLA

“Encarsia citri (Encarsia citri).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/encarsia-citri.

BibTeX
@misc{encarsia_citri_2026,
  title = {Encarsia citri (Encarsia citri)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/encarsia-citri},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}