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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Cuckoo Wasps & allies (Chrysidoidea) » Flat Wasps (Bethylidae) » Epyrinae » Laelius » Laelius pedatus
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tiny wasp - Laelius pedatus - female
Copyright © 2013 tom murray

tiny wasp - Laelius pedatus - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
December 28, 2013
Size: 2mm
This tiny wasp was walking up my computer screen.
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Contributed by tom murray on 28 December, 2013 - 8:23pm
Last updated 26 February, 2014 - 10:35pm

Laelius pedatus (Say), female
Moved from Laelius. ID'd from specimen, now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom!

Host is Anthrenus verbasci.
… Brad Barnd, 26 February, 2014 - 10:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bethylidae.
Thanks Jongok. I saved the specimen and am planning to send it to Brad to identify hopefully to species.
… tom murray, 20 January, 2014 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

A female of the genus Laelius
I think you had a fortune on the computer screen.
We have to know more morphology for ID, but I can this species as a member of the genus Laelius by dense seta-like hairs on head and thorax.
I also have a experience that I found a female of the genus in my office in 2009.
… Jongok LIM, 20 January, 2014 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Brad Barnd, 28 December, 2013 - 10:37pm login or register to post comments

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