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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps (Ceraphronoidea) » Ceraphronidae
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Ceraphronidae female?
Copyright © 2015 John Schneider

Ceraphronidae female?
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
December 4, 2014
Size: ~1.5 mm BL
Sweep net. Female based on 10 antenna segments?

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Ceraphronidae female? lateral
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Contributed by John Schneider on 25 January, 2015 - 11:23pm
Last updated 26 January, 2015 - 12:26am

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita). thanks for the info and confirmation, ross.
… John Schneider, 26 January, 2015 - 12:26am login or register to post comments

Ceraphronid…
Nice. Looks okay based on the size, frenum, foretibia with two spurs, wing venation, etc. The antennae can have 9-11 segments in this group; both males and females can have 10 segments, but I suspect this is a female.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 26 January, 2015 - 12:14am login or register to post comments

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