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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Oak Inquiline Gall Wasps (Ceroptresini) » Ceroptres
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Gall Wasp - Ceroptres
Copyright © 2005 Richard Leung

Gall Wasp - Ceroptres
Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
April 28, 2005
Size: ~2mm
I believe this is a small black gall wasp (fam. Cynipidae, subfam. Cynipinae). The wasp was photographed while it was scurrying around the underside of a leaf of a cherry tree, and it eventually flew off. The overall shape, round shiny abdomen, and rough textured thorax help identify it as Cynipinae.
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Contributed by Richard Leung on 29 April, 2005 - 11:11pm
Last updated 14 February, 2012 - 11:22am

Moved
Moved from Gall Wasps.
"An inquiline, seeming to be Ceroptres sp." according to Dr. Zhiwei Liu.
… Charley Eiseman, 14 February, 2012 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

 
happy to see all those getting figured out
thanks much Charley and Dr Liu
… v belov, 14 February, 2012 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

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