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Wingless Chalcid - Trimorus

Wingless Chalcid - Trimorus
Dixie Plantation, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
September 16, 2007
Size: <1mm
This fella would pass for a grain of sand if it wasn't for the antenna giving it away. It looks like a wingless chalcid, maybe a mymarid or Trichogrammid? or maybe a Scelionid?

Trimorus -- O.A. Popovici det.
Moved from Platygastridae.

Moved
Moved from Scelionidae.

Third option is the correct one
This is a tiny Scelionid indeed.

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