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Torymidae, ex Cecidomyiidae - Torymus - female

Torymidae, ex Cecidomyiidae - Torymus - Female
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
Size: 2 mm
September 19, 2018: collected leaf galls on an Asteraceae, fall blooming, small white flowered

probably same plants as this:


Cleaning out the jar found a fly, a fly pupa and multiple wasps

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Torymidae, ex Cecidomyiidae - Torymus - female Torymidae, ex Cecidomyiidae, ovipositor - Torymus - female

Moved
Moved from Torymidae.

Torymus…
The vast majority of Torymus species are known to be ectoparasitoids of gall-forming dipterans or hymenopterans.

See reference here.

 
Thanks.
That was my guess, but I need to get beyond guessing.

Moved
Moved from Asteromyia.

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