euphorine

plural euphorines

1. countablebiologyA parasitic wasp of the subfamily Euphorinae (a subfamily of Braconidae), characterized by two submarginal cells in the forewing and, usually, a petiolate first gastral tergite.

   The life cycles of these euphorine parasitoids are synchronized with those of their hosts.

   2001, Alfred George Wheeler, Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae), →ISBN

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   Euphorines are rather unusual hymenopterans in attacking the adult stage of various insects.

   1997, Robert Alan Wharton, Paul M. Marsh, Michael J. Sharkey, Manual of the New World genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)

   Although euphorines usually oviposit between abdominal sclerites, often near the anus, some species exhibit a well-pronounced preference for different sites such as the mouth (Wylie, 1985), whilst others are evidently more plastic in their behaviour (Wylie & Loan, 1984). It is usual for the euphorines that attack beetles to have two, or sometimes more, annual generations on a single generation of their univoltine hosts.

   2012, Pierre H. Jolivet, M.L. Cox, E. Petitpierre, Novel aspects of the biology of Chrysomelidae, →ISBN, page 435

2. uncountableSynonym of phenylurethan, when used medicinally.

   To cure Michel, who got addicted to euphorine? Well, he cured Michel. And now what?

   2017, Henry Oldie, The End Justifies the Means, →ISBN

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   Dr. Sansoni (Therap. Monatsh., September, 1890) has made a number of observations on the action of euphorine in disease.

   1891, The Year-book of Treatment - Volume 1891, page 460

   Euphorine, it would appear, exerts its specific action directly on the micro-organism; but in the tissues -- in other words, in clinical cases -- this action is notably increased by the circumstance that euphorine decomposes, and the decomposition, in part, generated phenic acid.

   1891, Epitome of Medicine - Volume 8, page 317

   Synonyms: phenylurethan, when used medicinally