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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Figitidae » Eucoilinae
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Figitidae, ovipositing - female
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

Figitidae, ovipositing - Female
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 9, 2015
I thought these looked like cynipids but they are ovipositing on something in the fungus. Hum?
But I see from BG Info that figitids look similar and are parasitoids of flies.
Perhaps that's what they are.

Meandering in the woods at night with a head lamp

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Figitidae, ovipositing - female Figitidae, the wasp in front - female Figitidae, the wasp in back - female
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 19 February, 2017 - 1:17pm
Last updated 30 May, 2021 - 8:20pm

Moved
Moved from Figitidae.
… Bob Zuparko, 30 May, 2021 - 7:41pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
… John S. Ascher, 20 February, 2017 - 8:35am login or register to post comments

Agree - Figitidae…
The scutellar plate and smooth mesoscutum are suggestive for this group. Some fly hosts are associated with fungi and mushrooms - see Charley's post here.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 19 February, 2017 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you for the link to Charley's blog.
I think it is so fascinating how wasps can pick up chemical/whatever clues as to exactly where to oviposit to hit their exact target. Or how they pick up on plant clues to find the leaf miner.
… MJ Hatfield, 20 February, 2017 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

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