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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Fairy Wasps (Mymaridae)
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tiny wasp parasite
Copyright © 2020 dvoribird

tiny wasp parasite
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
June 11, 2020

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Contributed by dvoribird on 12 September, 2020 - 4:53pm
Last updated 13 September, 2020 - 10:56am

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… Bob Zuparko, 13 September, 2020 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

For your records...
...I'd say Acmopolynema, similar to . Are both your images of the same individual? Females have clubbed antennae, which it looks like your first image might have and which your second image definitely doesn't have.
… John Schneider, 12 September, 2020 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

 
That must be it, thank you.
I was rearing Oecanthus varicornis and these guys were parasitizing them. (I guess they could be different individuals, and I know they are terrible pictures - just wanted to know what they were.)
I still don't know how the wasps originated, as my Oecanthinae were all raised from eggs and were contained inside butterfly cages.
Do these wasps lay eggs inside nymphs? adults? both?
… dvoribird, 12 September, 2020 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, all mymarids ...
... are parasitoids of eggs.
… Bob Zuparko, 13 September, 2020 - 10:55am login or register to post comments

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