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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eupelmidae » Eupelminae » Eupelmus » Eupelmus messene
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Eupelmidae, probably ex Apioninae - Eupelmus messene
Copyright © 2019 MJ Hatfield

Eupelmidae, probably ex Apioninae - Eupelmus messene
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
September 26, 2017

September 20, 2017: Apioninae in fruit/seed of Showy tick trefoil, Desmodium canadense


September 26, 2017: another collection of fruit/seed

Opened several pods, confined 1 parasitoid larva and 1 parasitoid pupa (which may or may not be the same species as the parasitoid larva)
October 6, 2017: (from confined larva) bracypterous wasp emerged, had trouble getting all the pupal bits off of itself
October 23, 2017: (from confined pupa), found dead wasp and chewed pupal case

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Eupelmidae, probably ex Apioninae - Eupelmus messene Eupelmidae, dorsal - Eupelmus messene - female Eupelmidae, lateral - Eupelmus messene - female
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 22 January, 2019 - 12:05pm
Last updated 22 March, 2023 - 10:13am

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