[Objectives]  The organisms are forced to face the challenge of extreme high temperature or cold weather for growth, development, reproduction and survival. We aimed to explore the effect of short-term temperature stress on Spalangia endius, to understand the differences in the tolerance on heat or cold stress when they were in low-age stage. [Methods]  The house fly pupae were placed at 40 ℃ or 5 ℃ for 4 hours after parasized by Spalangia endius 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 6 days later, and then raised at 24 ℃, dissected and observe development duration and adult longevity of S. endius. [Results]  The results showed that short-term temperature stress had significant effects on the development duration of S. endius. Heat stress had the greatest effect on the pupal stages, significant differences were found between each treatment and the control (heat stress: F_4,145=21.122, P<0.001; cold stress: F_4,145=3.387, P<0.05). When the 2-day-old parastitoids were treated by heat stress, the pupal stages were only 4.00 days, greatly shortened than the other treatments. The durations of egg, prepupal and pupal stages of the parastitoids were significantly prolonged after cold stress treatment, which were longer than heat stress treatments. The extension of prepupal stages was the most significantly. The temperature stress had little effect on the longevity of adult, but the longevity of female and male showed different differences. After the temperature stress, the adult hind tibia length of female or male were significantly shorter than that of control. [Conclusion]  The short-term heat stress or cold stress affects the growth and development of S. endius, the eggs were more sensitive to the temperature stress.