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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Platygastroidea » Platygastridae
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Scelionid wasp (parasitoid)
Copyright © 2005 Richard Leung

Scelionid wasp (parasitoid)
Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
April 24, 2005
Size: <1.5mm
I found this tiny wasp on a blossom of an apple tree and I took it inside to photograph. I'm hoping the clubbed antennae will help identifying it. This is certainly the smallest wasp I have found so far.
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Contributed by Richard Leung on 25 April, 2005 - 11:19pm
Last updated 30 October, 2009 - 3:56pm

Moved
Moved from Scelionidae.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 October, 2009 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Hey Charley
Can you tell me why you're putting all the scelionids in the Platygastridae? Is there a change in taxonomy?
Greetings,
Gerard
… Gerard Pennards, 30 October, 2009 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Taxonomy
Yes, Scelionidae has been dissolved. I brought this up in the "taxonomy proposals" forum here, and I think the reasoning is explained in the following article (which I have not read):

Murphy, N.P., D. Carey, L. Castro, M. Dowton & A.D. Austin (2007) Phylogeny of the platygastroid wasps (Hymenoptera) based on sequences from the 18S rRNA , 28S rRNA and CO1 genes: implications for classification and the evolution of host relationships. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91:653-669.

Many of the images can probably be placed in a particular subfamily, but I don't know which ones go where, and apparently these groupings are still in flux anyway.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 October, 2009 - 4:38pm login or register to post comments

Family Scelionidae
A wasp it is, and it belogs to the family Scelionidae!
Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
… Gerard Pennards, 26 April, 2005 - 5:42am login or register to post comments

 
Scelionidae
Thank you, Gerard. I have only read about the parasitic behavior of the members of this family, but didn't know what they looked like.
… Richard Leung, 26 April, 2005 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

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