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Aphelinidae? - Aphytis

Aphelinidae? - Aphytis
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
November 29, 2014
Came to blacklight. Long, thin mesotibial spur apparent in ventral photo.

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Aphelinidae? - Aphytis lateral  - Aphytis ventral - Aphytis head - Aphytis

Moved
Moved from Aphelinidae to Aphelininae and tentatively to Aphytis.

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita). Thanks, Ross.

Yes…
In addition to the long, thin middle tibial spur, you can see in your second image the cleft fore tibial spur which we would expect to see in this group. Some other features that can be seen here are the wings with setal tracts, widely separated notauli, light body sclerotization, and a long marginal wing vein. The size should be roughly 1mm, give or take a little. Thanks for all these images, John, they really help a lot.

See reference here.