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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Chalcid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Encyrtids (Encyrtidae)
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Coccinellid Larval Parasitoids - Part II
Copyright © 2008 Ken Schneider

Coccinellid Larval Parasitoids - Part II
Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, USA
September 7, 2008
Size: ~ 7 mm
I found this coccinellid larva "frozen" on an Oleander leaf and took it home to rear it. Ten days later, seven small wasps emerged from the larva and I collected some of them. Photomicrograph of one of the wasps and the post-emergence larva follow... Compare to images of another set of coccinellid larval parasitoids I took from the same location a while back - perhaps a different wasp?


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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 23 September, 2008 - 10:56pm
Last updated 16 October, 2008 - 11:16am

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.
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Moved from parasitic Apocrita.
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Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
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