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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Thynnoidea » Thynnid Wasps (Thynnidae) » Methochinae » Methocha
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Thynnidae, wingless wasp, dorsal - Methocha - female
Copyright © 2015 MJ Hatfield

Thynnidae, wingless wasp, dorsal - Methocha - Female
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 3, 2015
Size: 8 mm
By-catch in a pitfall trap from a Carabidae research project by students at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.
July 26, 2015 to August 3, 2015

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Thynnidae, wingless wasp, dorsal - Methocha - female wingless wasp, lateral - Methocha - female wingless wasp, ventral - Methocha - female
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 10 November, 2015 - 9:01pm
Last updated 13 September, 2019 - 7:27am

Moved
Moved from Dryinids.
… MJ Hatfield, 11 November, 2015 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

Methocha
Not a dryinid.... Methocha species (previously Tiphiidae, now Thynnidae)
… Steve Paiero, 11 November, 2015 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you very much.
The few adult dryinids I've seen (or inadvertently reared) had the front clasping tarsi but I wasn't sure if they all had them.
I'm fond of wingless wasps (not that I know them) and this is a first for me. Thanks again.
… MJ Hatfield, 11 November, 2015 - 4:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
… MJ Hatfield, 10 November, 2015 - 10:05pm login or register to post comments

Dryinid (female)…
Females are often wingless. These are mostly mostly ectoparasites of Homoptera, Lepidoptera, and Coleoptera.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 10 November, 2015 - 9:22pm login or register to post comments

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