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Photo#457319
wasp - Exallonyx - male

wasp - Exallonyx - Male
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
September 11, 2010
Size: ~4.5mm

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wasp - Exallonyx - male wasp - Exallonyx - male

Moved
Moved from Codrus.

Moved
Moved from Proctotrupids.

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Moved from ID Request.

Proctotrupid is correct…
A smooth unsculptured body (except the propodeum), spindle-shaped abdomen, antennae with 11 flagellar segments, and distinctive wing stigma IDs this family. Mostly parasitic on beetle larvae.

See reference here.

looks like a proctotrupid
but I am not very familiar with that group

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