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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Pteromalid Wasps (Pteromalidae)
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Two Wasps
Copyright © 2011 Karl Hillig

Two Wasps
Ballston Lake, Saratoga County, New York, USA
September 13, 2010
Size: ~3 mm?
ID help appreciated.

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Contributed by Karl Hillig on 26 March, 2011 - 3:46pm
Last updated 27 March, 2011 - 2:00pm

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Karl Hillig, 27 March, 2011 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

Pteromalid (top image)…
Some of the key diagnostic features are vague, but you can still see the green/bronze metallic coloration, long antennae, sculptured mesoscutum, and incomplete parapsidal sutures which ID this group.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 27 March, 2011 - 10:07am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Ross.
What about the other wasp with the pectinate(?) antennae? I haven't found anything like it on BugGuide (but I'm still looking). Could it be a male of the same species?
… Karl Hillig, 27 March, 2011 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

 
re: bottom image
I think this may be a male eulophid - some species have the branched antennae, but I can't see enough of the features clearly to be sure. Can you crop this image for a clearer closeup?
… Ross Hill, 27 March, 2011 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

 
The image
is at full resolution. To me it appears similar to this, which I assume is a female. I'll crop it separately from the other wasp, and repost it in Eulophidae - the first from NY in BG.
… Karl Hillig, 27 March, 2011 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

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