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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eulophidae » Entedoninae » Entedonini » Closterocerus
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Chalcid parasitoid of Tischeria quercitella - Closterocerus - female
Copyright © 2011 Charley Eiseman

Chalcid parasitoid of Tischeria quercitella - Closterocerus - Female
Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 1 mm
Emerged on 5/8/2011 from a mine in an oak leaf I collected over the winter. Although there are many documented parasitoids for Tischeria spp., there don't seem to be any recorded from T. quercitella specifically.
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 May, 2011 - 11:25am
Last updated 5 December, 2012 - 10:45am

Moved
Moved from Eulophidae.
Christer Hansson: "Closterocerus sp., a female"
Update, 2020: upon examining the specimen, he says it may be an undescribed species.
… Charley Eiseman, 5 December, 2012 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
… Charley Eiseman, 8 May, 2011 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

Eulophid…
The brilliant metallic coloration, short antennae, and axillae that extend past the tegula suggest this group. Banded wings are not uncommon. Many mining moths are associated with eulophids.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 8 May, 2011 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

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