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Species Torymus koebelei

unknown tiny wasp - Torymus koebelei - female Unknown insect - Torymus koebelei - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Chalcidoidea (Chalcidoid Wasps)
Family Torymidae
Subfamily Toryminae
Genus Torymus
No Taxon (tubicola species group)
Species koebelei (Torymus koebelei)
Explanation of Names
Callimome koebelei Huber, 1927
Size
Body Length: Males range from 1.0 to 1.7 mm; females range in size from 1.2 to 2.3 mm (ovipositor excluded).
Range
w. US (WA-CA to MT-TX) and Mexico(1)
Food
Host: Dipteran families Cecidomyiidae & Tephritidae (Ceratitis capitata)(1)
Remarks
Has been reared from cecidomyiid galls on Baccharis, Artemisia, and a number of other Asteraceae.

T. koebelei is in the tubicola species group.