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Wingless Parasitic Wasp? - Dyscritobaeus
Copyright © 2016 Susan Leach Snyder

Wingless Parasitic Wasp? - Dyscritobaeus
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
December 13, 2016
Size: 1 mm BL
This tiny insect, which may be a wingless parasitic wasp, was caught in a pitfall trap placed in sand and dried grass in a scrub and left overnight.

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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 19 December, 2016 - 4:00pm
Last updated 31 December, 2016 - 8:39pm

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
… John S. Ascher, 31 December, 2016 - 8:39pm login or register to post comments

Comment by Dr. Lubomir Masner…
"This little wasp is well known to me from Florida and elsewhere in SE USA. It belongs to genus Dyscritobaeus Perk. (Platygastroidea, Scelioninae) and is still an undescribed species. Individuals may be fully winged or micropterous. The putative hosts are true bugs (Heteroptera). The genus is almost world wide in distribution; the African species were recently revised".

Great find, Susan. A new genus page can be created for this wasp [Scelioninae, Dyscritobaeus, Perkins 1910].

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 22 December, 2016 - 4:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Ross,
thanks so much for your help with this one. Please let Dr. Lubomir Masner know how much I appreciate his identification. The surprises I'm finding in the gopher tortoise preserve I'm studying just keep coming. :)
… Susan Leach Snyder, 23 December, 2016 - 7:15am login or register to post comments

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