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Small hymenopteran - Spalangia

Small hymenopteran - Spalangia
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
October 15, 2008
Size: ~ 1.5 mm
Can't quite figure this one out.

Moved
Moved from Eupelmidae.

Pteromalidae (Chalcidoidea)
Pteromalidae (Chalcidoidea)
Spalangia sp.
Revision of New World Spalangiinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02259p159.pdf

 
Thank you Victor.

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita). Thanks Ross.

Eupelmid…
Fits this group including the long marginal wing vein, a long and flattened mesonotum, and widely separated fore and hind coxae. Some are hyperparasitic.

See reference here.

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