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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Aphelinidae » Aphelininae » Marietta
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Marietta timberlakei? - Marietta
Copyright © 2014 John Schneider

Marietta timberlakei? - Marietta
Bering Ditch, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
November 3, 2014
Size: ~0.5 mm
From sweep-netting.

Apparently there are only two species of Marietta with brachypterous forms: picta and timberlakei. (See Hayat's 1986 "Notes on Some Species of Marietta" (PDF).) I found two specimens at the same time (here's the other one), and they look very different from each other. This one looks pretty close to Mark Fox's timberlakei, and the other one doesn't. So I'm thinking this one and Mark's are timberlakei and the other one is picta, but am hoping for confirmation or correction.

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Contributed by John Schneider on 13 November, 2014 - 10:58pm
Last updated 20 November, 2014 - 6:24pm

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
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