Abstract
Abstract Species richness and host range are fundamental properties of parasitoid community structure. A central theme of parasitoid community ecology is elucidation of ecological predictors of parasitoid species richness and host range, as many of the chapters of this volume attest. However, two aspects of host biology, host abundance and phylogeny, typically confound efforts to understand the ecological basis of parasitoid community structure. To be sure, both host abundance and phylogeny are, to some degree, ecological factors and may be crucial to understanding parasitoid community structure. But few broad parasitoid data sets are available that allow distinguishing sampling bias from true host abundance, and few host cladograms exist for which there are plentiful parasitoid rearings, that allow separation effects due to phylogenetic inertia from those due to ecological adaptation.
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