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Photo#1031958
Encyrtidae, dorsal - Ooencyrtus - male

Encyrtidae, dorsal - Ooencyrtus - Male
Broken Kettle Grasslands, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA
August 10, 2014
Size: 1 mm
Swept on a Loess Hills Prairie Remnant (Stevenson)

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Encyrtidae, dorsal - Ooencyrtus - male Encyrtidae, lateral - Ooencyrtus - male Encyrtidae, ventral - Ooencyrtus - male Encyrtidae, ventral - Ooencyrtus - male

Moved
Moved from Encyrtids.

The enlarged mesopleuron suggests ...
... the genus Ooencyrtus (and it seems the axillae are separated as well). That said, this is a male, which makes it much more difficult to ID to species.

Moved

Encyrtid…
See reference here.

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