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Ornate yellow chalcidoid - female

Ornate yellow chalcidoid - Female
Colusa Levee Scenic Park, Colusa County, California, USA
June 11, 2017
Size: ca 3 mm
I beat this lovely, patterned yellow chalcidoid wasp from vegetation. It resembles some of the Sycophila we have in the guide, but I'm not seeing the pigment on the wings of that genus?? A female, I think?

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Moved
Moved from Sycophila.

Miles Zhang think this actually belongs in genus Eurytoma - see iNat link here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6600195

 
It also reminds me a lot of a
It also reminds me a lot of a female from the genus Prodecatoma.

Moved
Moved from Eurytominae.

Det. Austin Baker - see iNat link here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6600195

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.

Eurytominae (female)…
See reference here.

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