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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Aulacid, Ensign, and Gasteruptiid Wasps (Evanioidea) » Carrot Wasps (Gasteruptiidae) » Gasteruption » assectator or kirbii (Gasteruption assectator or kirbii)
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tiny thin wasp - Gasteruption
Copyright © 2006 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

tiny thin wasp - Gasteruption
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 9, 2006
Size: 1/4 inch approx

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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 14 August, 2006 - 12:30pm
Last updated 2 July, 2010 - 4:30pm

Moved
Moved from Gasteruption.
… Harsi S. Parker, 2 July, 2010 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

Not sure that this image shows the same individual...
Hi Jo Ann. If you look closely at your other two images, you can see that the wasp has a very short ovipositor. I do think its likely that the wasp in this photo is also a gasteruptiid, but I think this one might be a male.
… Harsi S. Parker, 28 June, 2010 - 11:49pm login or register to post comments

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