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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Fig wasps (Agaonidae) » Agaoninae » Pegoscapus
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Fig wasp? - Pegoscapus - female
Copyright © 2011 Brad Barnd

Fig wasp? - Pegoscapus - Female
Rotonda West, Charlotte County, Florida, USA
June 11, 2011
Size: < 1 mm (~ 0.8 mm)
Collected between 5.VI.2011 and 16.VI.2011; skimmed from swimming pool.

I think this may be a fig wasp. Fits the characters of the family: head with a groove/channel between the eyes, tibiae shorter than femora, middle legs slender, front and hind legs stout. Sorry about the poor photos, its so small!

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Fig wasp? - Pegoscapus - female Fig wasp? - Pegoscapus - female
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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 23 December, 2011 - 9:03pm
Last updated 11 January, 2014 - 11:53am

Moved to Pegoscapus sp.
Moved from Fig wasps.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 11 January, 2014 - 11:53am login or register to post comments

Pegoscapus
Pegoscapus sp.
… Rasplus JY, 11 January, 2014 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
… Brad Barnd, 11 January, 2014 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

Yes…
Besides the characters that you mentioned, these wasps have a dorsoventrally flattened head, the females with a long needle-like ovipositor. Males are wingless.
… Ross Hill, 24 December, 2011 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
… Brad Barnd, 23 December, 2011 - 9:17pm login or register to post comments

 
cool pool, man...
… v belov, 23 December, 2011 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

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