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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Ormyridae » Ormyrus
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Ormyridae, ex Antistrophus laciniatus, lateral - Ormyrus - male
Copyright © 2020 MJ Hatfield

Ormyridae, ex Antistrophus laciniatus, lateral - Ormyrus - Male
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
October 19, 2016
Size: 2.6 mm
August 22, 2016: collected flower galls on Compass plant, Silphium laciniatum
September 19, 2016: parasitoid wasp
October 19, 2016: this parasitoid wasp

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Ormyridae, ex Antistrophus laciniatus, lateral - Ormyrus - male Ormyridae, ex Antistrophus laciniatus, dorsal - Ormyrus - male Ormyridae, ex Antistrophus laciniatus, abdomen - Ormyrus - male Ormyridae, Compass Plant flower galls - Ormyrus
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 12 December, 2020 - 9:49pm
Last updated 14 December, 2020 - 12:28pm

Moved
Moved from Torymidae.
… Bob Zuparko, 14 December, 2020 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

No, this is a member ...
... of the family Ormyridae, a closely related group to the torymids (most easily separated by the punctures on the dorsum of the metasoma). There is only one genus of the family in the US.
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