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parasitoids - Aprostocetus - male - female
Copyright © 2007 Joyce Gross

parasitoids - Aprostocetus - Male Female
Sunol Regional Park, Alameda County, California, USA
Size: 2mm
These wasps emerged from these Dryocosmus dubiosus galls. They are not cynipids but parasitoids. They emerged on 12/19/2007, but they've been inside my heated house so I'm not sure that these are good dates for when they would emerge outdoors.

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 23 December, 2007 - 2:44am
Last updated 21 February, 2018 - 6:09pm

Moved
Moved from Eulophidae.
… Bob Zuparko, 21 February, 2018 - 6:09pm

This belongs to the subfamily ...
... Tetrastichinae, and are the genus Aprostocetus.
… Bob Zuparko, 21 February, 2018 - 6:09pm

Moved
Moved from parasitic Apocrita.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 23 December, 2007 - 11:39am

Eulophid Wasps
This "courtship" behavior of the male is strikingly alike to the one of, e.g, Paper Wasps (Polistes). Only forewing venation and 4-segmented tarsi dinstinguish such Eulophidae from otherwise very similar Pteromalidae.
… Richard Vernier, 23 December, 2007 - 3:35am

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