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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Diparidae » Lelaps
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Wasp - Lelaps
Copyright © 2019 Will Chatfield-Taylor

Wasp - Lelaps
Maritime Hammock, Brevard County, Florida, USA
May 26, 2019
Size: 5mm
Sorry for the bad pics; my ring-light finally stopped working and I have to shoot through a microscope.

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Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 30 May, 2019 - 6:26am
Last updated 22 December, 2019 - 5:56pm

Moved
Moved from Diparinae.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 22 December, 2019 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

I keep meaning to get back to
I keep meaning to get back to this. Are house is being remodeled and it isn't ideal insect-photographing conditions.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 10 October, 2019 - 2:50am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Zuparko, 1 June, 2019 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

The more I look at this, the more ...
... I believe it to be a Diparine pteromalid, so I'm moving it to that section.
… Bob Zuparko, 1 June, 2019 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

Torymidae?
Torymidae characters I can see are:
Occipital carina (around the back side of the head)
Ovipositor sheaths long.
Mesopleuron is not longer than high like Eupelmidae. Seems more quadrate.
Can’t see cercus at the base of the ovipositor (should be elongate, not bump like.
Can’t see venation…
Can’t see mesotibial spur which should not be thick and long.
… Glen Forister, 31 May, 2019 - 1:43pm login or register to post comments

Gorgeous critter ...
... and definitely in the Chalcidoidea. It may be in the Pteromalidae (I'm thinking Diparinae), but any ID would be helped if we could get a better idea of the wing venation (best achieved by backlighting).
… Bob Zuparko, 30 May, 2019 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

 
I'll give it a try, but it's
I'll give it a try, but it's going to have to wait till I get a better setup than a iphone through a microscope! I'll see what I can do. Which wing (marked one or plain)?
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 30 May, 2019 - 9:39am login or register to post comments

 
The forewings (marked ones)
Hind wing venation is almost useless for ID purposes in the Chalcidoidea. Oh, and the Diparinae usually have very fine transverse striations on the hind coxae.
… Bob Zuparko, 31 May, 2019 - 9:35am login or register to post comments

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