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Servaisia - NEW GENUS - Blaesoxipha - female

Servaisia - NEW GENUS - Blaesoxipha - Female
Hanover, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
August 2, 2014
Collected from pitfall traps at a sand prairie. This is rare in my samples.

Of importance in IDing: post-alar haired, frontal bristles diverging anteriorly, terminalia red, R1 bare, metatrochanter lacking spinules posteriorly, 3 postsutural dorsocentrals, presutural acrostichals present, and that ovipositor is pretty unique. I'm curious what this species parasitizes with such a unique ovipositor. The collection locality was superabundant with orthopterans.

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Servaisia - NEW GENUS - Blaesoxipha - female Servaisia - NEW GENUS - Blaesoxipha - female Servaisia - NEW GENUS - Blaesoxipha - female

Moved
Moved from Sarcophaginae.

= Blaesoxipha?
Servaisa may have been moved back into Blaesoxipha.

 
Blaesoxipha (Servaisia)
The MCAD lists it as a subgenus. It mentions it is a parasitoid of acridids (which were superabundant at this collection site).

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