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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Tanaostigmatidae » Tanaostigmodes
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Elasmus? - Tanaostigmodes
Copyright © 2018 Salvador Vitanza

Elasmus? - Tanaostigmodes
Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
April 12, 2018
Size: 1 mm
Coordinates: 31.338093, -110.964620
Caught by sweeping vegetation

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 16 April, 2018 - 5:24pm
Last updated 19 May, 2018 - 8:13pm

Moved
Moved from Tanaostigmatidae.
… Bob Zuparko, 19 May, 2018 - 8:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Encyrtids.
… Bob Zuparko, 18 May, 2018 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.
… Bob Zuparko, 28 April, 2018 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

I can see why ...
... you thought this might be an Elasmus, but the bulging mesopleuron suggests this is an encyrtid, which, like the Eulophidae, has a few genera with branched antenna in the male. The elongate marginal vein makes me think this is either Charitopus or Neocharitopus.
… Bob Zuparko, 28 April, 2018 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Bob!
I appreciate your help and explanation.
… Salvador Vitanza, 28 April, 2018 - 1:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Well, looks like I made an error
This is likely NOT an encyrtid, but rather something from the family Tanaostigmatidae.
… Bob Zuparko, 18 May, 2018 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

 
After a little more investigation ...
... this appears to be a member of the genus Tanaostigmodes. Unfortunately, the best key for this genus is based on females, and this is a male.
… Bob Zuparko, 19 May, 2018 - 8:12pm login or register to post comments

 
I wasn't familiar with this family at all
which is distributed worldwide, but for some reason, the few BugGuide entries have been posted by Charles W. Melton from Arizona.
… Salvador Vitanza, 19 May, 2018 - 8:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 17 April, 2018 - 7:33am login or register to post comments

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