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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Chalcid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eurytomidae
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small wasp - male
Copyright © 2007 Ilona Loser

small wasp - Male
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
October 12, 2007
Size: ~3mm for body
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Contributed by Ilona Loser on 11 November, 2007 - 8:39pm
Last updated 12 November, 2007 - 9:53am

Eurytomidae (Chalcidoidea) - male
These are the so-called "seed Chalcids". They are among the few Apocritan groups who have reverted to plant feeding for their brood (Gall Wasps and Bees being the two other large exceptions).
Often treated as a mere subfamily (Eurytominae) of Pteromalids in most recent classifications. Perilampidae are another example.
… Richard Vernier, 12 November, 2007 - 1:23am login or register to post comments

Chalcidoidea
Something from the parasitoid superfamily Chalcidoidae, see here. Maybe Pteromalidae.
… Brad Barnd, 11 November, 2007 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

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