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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Platygastroidea » Platygastridae » Platygastrinae » Platygaster
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Tiny Fly Look Like Ant - Platygaster
Copyright © 2009 Mardon Erbland

Tiny Fly Look Like Ant - Platygaster
47.63024N 52.68733W (WGS84), Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
August 17, 2009
Size: 1.5mm
I caught this fly in a 'blind' sweep of the grass in our yard and photographed it on a white plastic container.

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 17 August, 2009 - 7:30pm
Last updated 22 December, 2009 - 3:35pm

Platygaster -- O.A. Popovici det.
Moved from Platygastridae.
… v belov, 22 December, 2009 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Mardon Erbland, 18 August, 2009 - 6:25am login or register to post comments

Parasitic wasp indeed
And it's in the family platygastridae I think!
greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 18 August, 2009 - 3:14am login or register to post comments

Ant
I think it is an ant, not an ant mimic fly, or maybe one of the little parasitic wasps.
… John F. Carr, 17 August, 2009 - 9:51pm login or register to post comments

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