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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Chalcid Wasps (Chalcidoidea)
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Goldenrod leaf-roller gall-maker (goldenrod parasitoid fauna)
Copyright © 2009 Beatriz Moisset

Goldenrod leaf-roller gall-maker (goldenrod parasitoid fauna)
Churchville Nature Center, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 3, 2009
Size: 1-2mm
It came from a goldenrod gall similar to this one containing a younger pupa:

At least I think that the different aspect is due to aging of the pupae.
In other similar galls there is a different kind of pupa, with little "horns", longer appendages and different looking abdominal segments:


More on goldenrod galls fauna.
Southeastern PA
Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea representative

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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 4 July, 2009 - 6:11pm
Last updated 29 September, 2009 - 4:24pm

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… Beatriz Moisset, 31 July, 2009 - 7:44am login or register to post comments

This one
looks like a parasitoid wasp for sure. I'm betting a chalcid.
… Charley Eiseman, 12 July, 2009 - 1:47pm login or register to post comments

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