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Genus Helorus

Helorus anomalipes (syn. paradoxus) - Helorus anomalipes - female Wasp - Helorus ruficornis Small Thin Waist Wasp - Helorus anomalipes Small Thin Waist Wasp - Helorus anomalipes Small, Black Wasp - Helorus anomalipes Small Archibald Park Wasp - Helorus anomalipes Helorus anomalipes Small Threadwaisted Wasp - Lateral  - Helorus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Proctotrupoidea
Family Heloridae
Genus Helorus
Explanation of Names
Helorus Latreille 1802
Numbers
2 spp. in our area (both holarctic), 18 total(1)
Size
4‒5 mm(2)
Identification
to separate our spp.(3):
Pterostigma 2.9‒3.6× as long as wide. T1 raised dorso-basally. Antennae black. =>H. anomalipes
Pterostigma 2.1‒2.5× as long as wide. T1 not raised dorso-basally. Antennae brownish. =>H. ruficornis
Range
worldwide(1); in NA, most commonly found in ne.US (MI‒ME‒VA), the PNW, and California(2)
Food
hosts: Chrysopidae (Neuroptera)(2)
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