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UID braconid - female

UID braconid - Female
Brookside Gardens, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
May 27, 2018
Size: ~5mm from photo
Agathidinae? Ovipositing into something hidden in the center of daisy fleabane flowers.
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UID braconid - female UID braconid - female

Moved
Moved from Bassus.

Significant revision to the subfamily found that most application of Bassus was highly polyphyletic. Sharkey has performed numerous mass-transfers of species, and his 2017 paper notes that "there are no New World Bassus in the phylogenetic sense."

Moved
Moved from Agathidinae.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Yes…
See reference here.

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