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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Metapelmatidae » Metapelmatinae » Metapelma » Metapelma spectabile
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parasitic wasp - Metapelma spectabile - female
Copyright © 2020 Doug Wechsler

parasitic wasp - Metapelma spectabile - Female
Camp Woods Preserve, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 30, 2020
Size: 6.5 mm (w/o ovipositor)
ovipositing in log in woods

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Contributed by Doug Wechsler on 30 August, 2020 - 3:53pm
Last updated 11 May, 2022 - 3:46am

Moved
Moved from Metapelma.

The hind tibiae are laterally compressed, so the apparent inflating is only visible from the side (and visible in the third photo). Ovipositor length of nearly the length of the abdomen cleanly places this as M. spectabile and excludes M. schwarzi.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 11 May, 2022 - 3:46am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eupelmidae.
… v belov, 24 October, 2020 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

Metapelma sp.
Metapelma sp.
… Jeong Yoo, 31 August, 2020 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Zuparko, 31 August, 2020 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

Metapelma spectabile…
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 30 August, 2020 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

 
The hind tibia do not look ...
... "inflated" enough to me to be M. spectabile.
… Bob Zuparko, 31 August, 2020 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

This is a member ...
... of the family Eupelmidae.
… Bob Zuparko, 30 August, 2020 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

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