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Photo#1092551
Gonatocerus nr. morrilli?  - Gonatocerus - male

Gonatocerus nr. morrilli? - Gonatocerus - Male
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
June 10, 2015
Size: 2 mm
This male emerged, along with nine females, from a set of leafhopper eggs in lantana.

Here is a female that was brood-guarding before the young wasps emerged:

She also guarded another set of eggs, from which another 10 adult wasps (nine females and one male) emerged.

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Gonatocerus nr. morrilli?  - Gonatocerus - male antenna, wings - Gonatocerus - male

Moved
Moved from Gonatocerini.

Moved
Moved from Gonatocerus.

I may move these images to fa
I may move these images to family level. Gonatocerus morrelli is now Cosmocomoidea morrelli, and it seems possible that this specimen is that species, so I'm thinking it's safer to move it to family level than to leave it here under Gonatocerus.

 
Key
Key by Huber (2015):

Fore wing with microtrichia uniformly distributed to base of parastigma and usually fairly narrow, at least 3.8× as long as wide, with rounded apex; dorsellum triangular to rhomboidal and sometimes margined with lighter colour; propodeum smooth medially, rarely with two submedian carinae; funicle of female often with fl1 obliquely truncate dorsoapically, and fl2 and fl3 almost always longer than following funicle segments ... Gonatocerus Nees
– Fore wing almost always bare behind venation or, if setose, then microtrichia usually not uniformly distributed and less densely spaced than those beyond venation but if microtrichia uniformly distributed to base of parastigma (on one surface at least, e.g., Cosmocomoidea schajovskoii Ogloblin), then other features not all as above ... Cosmocomoidea Howard

I created a page for tribe Gonatocerini if you can't decide.

 
Thanks, John. On the female,
Thanks, John. On the female, I'm not seeing oblique truncation of fl1 (so it might be Gonatocerus), but fl2 and fl3 do seem longer than the following fl segments (so it might be Cosmocomoidea), although the difference with fl4 is slight. I've therefore moved the images to tribe level.

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita), based on comments on image of female by Ross Hill. Thanks, Ross.

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