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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Xyelid Sawflies (Xyelidae) » Xyelinae » Xyela
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Xyela - female
Copyright © 2010 Cotinis

Xyela - Female
Parkwood, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
March 14, 2010
Size: 3 mm
I found this little wasp associated with a bunch of termites (Reticulitermes, I think) under the bark of a standing dead tree. Body length (excluding ovipositor) 3 mm.

Thanks for help on ID--I was barking up the wrong part of the phylogenetic tree! The association with the termites is odd--perhaps the adult was sheltering under bark, coincidentally in the presence of the termites.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 15 March, 2010 - 12:00am
Last updated 15 March, 2010 - 8:15am

Moved
Moved from parasitic Apocrita.
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