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Photo#174625
bean weevil parasites - male - female

bean weevil parasites - Male Female
Anza-Borrego, California, USA
March 28, 2008
Size: 3 mm
Emerged from screwbean mesquite pods I had in a jar, along with these beetles.

Braconidae.
These are braconids, possibly Chelonus, or something in that subfamily (indicated by the total fusion of the dorsal abdominal segments).

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