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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Chalcidid Wasps (Chalcididae) » Chalcidinae » Conura
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Very small - Conura
Copyright © 2007 Scott Nelson

Very small - Conura
Withalacoochee State Forest, Sumter County, Florida, USA
August 12, 2007
Size: 4 mm
Spilochalcis igneoides I believe

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Contributed by Scott Nelson on 14 August, 2007 - 9:09pm
Last updated 13 December, 2007 - 10:05pm

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 13 December, 2007 - 10:05pm login or register to post comments

Wonderfully detailed images
Don't you just love those hunky back legs? (Once, I shot one kicking another wasp in the face.)
… Ron Hemberger, 14 August, 2007 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

 
First One
This was the very first of these wasps that I've noticed. I would have loved to have taken the photo in nature, but it was about 100 degress outside wtih a heat index approaching 115. I couldn't see straight with all the sweat running down my face in my eyes. So... I managed to bring it home in a jar and then take a photo. Yes, I love the large muscular looking hind legs.
… Scott Nelson, 14 August, 2007 - 9:51pm login or register to post comments

 
They must like heat.
Mine was shot on a hot day too, in the midst of a decaying cactus patch. I share your serious sweat-in-the-eyes problem, which has put an end to shoots more than once. These wasps certainly don't make things easy for us, which no doubt accounts for so few images.
… Ron Hemberger, 14 August, 2007 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

 
A male specimen of Conura (fo
A male specimen of Conura (formerly Spilochalcis), possibly C. mariae.
… Dennis Haines, 13 December, 2007 - 9:50pm login or register to post comments

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