Table 3.

Lepidoptera families reported as hosts of Glyptapanteles, numbers of newly described Glyptapanteles species parasitizing each family of Lepidoptera, and numbers of plant families that are consumed by the caterpillars that Glyptapanteles use as hosts. Key: * = newly reported lepidopteran family hosts. N.B. Pyralidae and Crambidae are generally confused with each other in the literature; Euteliidae has generally been reported as a member of Noctuidae, as is the case with Erebidae.

	Apatelodidae	*Crambridae	*Depressariidae	Erebidae	*Euteliidae	Geometridae	*Hesperiidae	Noctuidae	Notodontidae	Nymphalidae	Pantheidae	Pieridae	Pyralidae	Saturniidae	*Sphingidae
Number of Glyptapanteles spp.	8	2	1	26	1	19	1	30	11	15	1	2	7	4	4
Number of plant families	15	3	1	21	1	16	2	20	10	7	1	1	5	6	2