Venturia is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Among the species in the genus are: Venturia ahlensis Maheshwary, 1977 Venturia altia (Morley, 1913) Venturia aurantia Venturia biroi Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst, 1829) Venturia contiguus Venturia crassicaput (Morley, 1926) Venturia inclyta (Morley, 1923) Venturia himachala Gupta & Maheshwary, 1977 Venturia levocarinata Venturia liuae Venturia mortifera Vas, 2020 Venturia peringueyi (Cameron, 1906) Venturia serpentina Maheshwary, 1977 Venturia yunnanensis Parthenogenetic reproduction Venturia canescens can produce haploid males from unfertilized eggs (arrhenotoky), a form of parthenogenesis.Beukeboom LW, Pijnacker LP. Automictic parthenogenesis in the parasitoid Venturia canescens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) revisited. Genome. 2000 Dec;43(6):939-44. doi: 10.1139/g00-061. PMID: 11195346 Females may also produce diploid female offspring by thelytoky, a type of parthenogenesis that involves the production of female progeny in the absence of mating.
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