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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps (Ceraphronoidea) » Ceraphronidae
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Ceraphronidae, lateral - female
Copyright © 2020 MJ Hatfield

Ceraphronidae, lateral - Female
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 2, 2016
Size: 1 mm
July 20, 2016: collected 1 leaf of Wild grape, Vitis sp., covered with galls
See associated life here:


August 2, 2016: wasp (head is not attached to thorax in photo)
Interesting antennae attachment points on head.

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Ceraphronidae, lateral - female Ceraphronidae, dorsal - female
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 6 April, 2020 - 8:52am
Last updated 2 May, 2020 - 10:23am

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 1 May, 2020 - 2:52am login or register to post comments

Ceraphronid…
In this group, the pronotum is triangular when viewed laterally, and also extends back to the tegula. Trochanters are two-segmented, and the abdomen is rounded laterally. There is also a suggestion in this image of a linear pterostigma in the wing. The host association is also present, since these wasps are known to attack nematocerous dipterans such as gall midges.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 30 April, 2020 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).

The head projections and antennae look distinctive and I thought moving it to ID Request might help garner some attention or comment.
Thank you.
… MJ Hatfield, 23 April, 2020 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

 
I believe this ...
... is either a platygastrid, or a member of the Ceraphronoidea, but I can't tell which. Leaving undetermined images in ID request typically results in them getting bumped further and further back in the queue as new requests are added. Since playtgastrids and ceraphronoids are in different superfamilies, they "lowest" taxonomic level that I can be sure about for this beast is the "Parasitica", and in my opinion, placing thus image under that category provides the best chance of someone recognizing it.
… Bob Zuparko, 30 April, 2020 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

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