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Wasp - Megaspilus

Wasp - Megaspilus
Allison Park, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 20, 2014
Size: 4mm

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Moved
Moved from Megaspilidae. You can just see the bifurcate lamellar process behind the scutellum which should be somewhat diagnostic for this genus.

Moved tentatively
Moved from Cuckoo Wasps and Allies.

Very close to this one, too:


Moved

Chrysidoidea
I believe it is a dryinid

Moved

cool thing... could this be, like, a trigonalid??
and no, i don't know what i'm talking about; probably way off... still, looks like some sort of basal 'Parasitica' but for the fact that the venation is way too reduced
[edit] i'm afraid it's a cynipoid

 
difficult
It doesn't look like a chrysidoid. I'm not sure about it but to me it looks like a specimen of Megaspilidae. Something like these:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/771455/bgimage
http://bugguide.net/node/view/538554/bgimage

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