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Chalcidoid - Copidosoma

Chalcidoid - Copidosoma
Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, USA
June 15, 2014
Size: 1 mm
These are fairly common in my traps; pitfall and aerial intercept. Often they have swollen abdomens that form sort of curvy stripes with the gaps between tagma. If I had to guess I'd say Copidosoma, but I haven't learned to reliably do Chalcids even to family yet. Similar specimens are taken often in hay-fruit polyculture and occasionally in monoculture corn.

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Moved from Encyrtids.

I think you nailed it ...
... with 'Copidosoma'. This one is a male.

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Encyrtid (female)…
The wing venation, expanded mesopleura, and linea calva are suggestive of an encyrtid.

See reference here.

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