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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Chalcid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Chalcid Wasps (Chalcididae) » Brachymeria
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Black Chalcid Wasp in California - Brachymeria - female
Copyright © 2009 Harsi S. Parker

Black Chalcid Wasp in California - Brachymeria - Female
Webb Canyon , ~2000 ft. altitude, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 13, 2009
Size: ~3 - 3.5 mm
This is one of the cuter critters I have rescued from the pool. Gotta' love those super-long antennae! It didn't take very long at all to dry off enough to fly away, so I only managed a limited number of photos. I'm hoping that they are enough for me to at least learn a little more about this wasp's identity. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mixed oak & chaparral habitat.

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Contributed by Harsi S. Parker on 13 June, 2009 - 12:43pm
Last updated 10 August, 2009 - 3:15am

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… Harsi S. Parker, 17 June, 2009 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Brachymeria…
The flattened frons, clubless antenna, wing venation, curved hind tibias, swollen hind femora with spines, punctate thorax, and sculptured black body all point to a female wasp in this subfamily. Nice find Harsi.

See reference here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/37607
… Ross Hill, 17 June, 2009 - 6:23pm login or register to post comments

 
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I was going to bring this up with you privately, but you have no e-mail contact listed...

I know that I (and several other editors) would love to see you become an editor. If you have your own reasons for preferring not to ascend to this status, it is completely understandable. However, if you are interested, I'm sure BugGuide would be happy to have you! If nothing else, you should at least be given expert status so that you can view the images full size. (If you don't currently have this ability, please let me know and I will correct that sitution.) Your well-researched and thought out IDs on countless images has proven so invaluable thus far!
… Harsi S. Parker, 17 June, 2009 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

 
You made my day!
How wonderful to get an ID on this nifty little one! Thanks, Ross. As I said in my earlier comments, I only wish it had hung out for longer so that I could have gotten more images...
… Harsi S. Parker, 17 June, 2009 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

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