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Aphanogmus
Photo#604180
Copyright © 2011
Charley Eiseman
Tiny wasp with banded wings -
Aphanogmus
Butter Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
August 4, 2011
Size: 1.5 mm
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Contributed by
Charley Eiseman
on 28 December, 2011 - 12:18pm
Last updated 2 January, 2012 - 10:46pm
Moved
Moved from
Fairyflies
.
My first ceraphronid... I wish I had gotten better photos, but I had only taken several shots at 1x before it flew away.
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Charley Eiseman
, 2 January, 2012 - 10:46pm
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Moved
Moved from
"Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita)
.
Great, thanks!
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Charley Eiseman
, 2 January, 2012 - 8:21pm
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Question…
Charley, can you estimate the body length and/or provide any other angles?
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Ross Hill
, 2 January, 2012 - 6:02pm
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1.5 mm
It was about 1.5 mm. Unfortunately the other shots all are the same angle and out of focus, except the one shot I've just added, which shows a little more detail of the thorax and wings.
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Charley Eiseman
, 2 January, 2012 - 6:18pm
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That helps…
In your second image, you can see the prepectus, which appears in chalcids, but not in scelionids. This helps a great deal because the antennal insertion point (which helps separate these two groups) is difficult to see in these images. Being a chalcid, this would likely be a mymarid due to the tiny size, long antennae, and wings with a marginal fringe. You can also see the spatulate hind wing a little more clearly. Additionally, there are examples mentioned in the literature of mymarids with infuscated wings. That one other angle made the difference here I think.
See reference
here.
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Ross Hill
, 2 January, 2012 - 8:02pm
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Aphanogmus sp. Ceraphronidae
Aphanogmus sp. Ceraphronidae
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Victor Kolyada
, 2 January, 2012 - 10:22pm
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