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Platygastridae - male

Platygastridae - Male
Kootenay - Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
July 11, 2015
I believe it is a male, 9 flagellomeres, Ceraphronidae? Very tiny hard to see characters such as tibia spurs with my microscope setup. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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Scelionidae
Pretty sure any platygastroidea with a linear stigmal vein is Scelionidae not Platygastridae. Platygastridae have basically no venation or they have a subcostal vein that has a clubbed end (sorta heart shaped).

 
Yeah
Sharkey (2007) synonymized Scelionidae with Platygastridae; however, Talamas and Buffington (2015) said they don't agree with the change, so I don't know if that statement alone removes it from synonymy.

 
hmmm
What keys are you using/ recommend for the parasitic apocrita ? I've got 'Hymenoptera of the world" and a few online keys but they can be disparate.

Platygastrid…
Ceraphronids have a very broad metasomal petiole, and have forewings with fused costal and subcostal veins (often with a linear pseudostigma).

See reference here.

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