Wasp from Mantis Ootheca - Podagrion

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Torymidae » Podagrioninae » Podagrion

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Wasp from Mantis Ootheca - Podagrion

May 13, 2021

I was given a praying mantis ootheca and told that it was not viable. I kept it in a vial and a month or so after receiving it, I noticed that the jar was full of mantis nymphs and tiny wasps. This is one of the wasps. It was difficult to get decent photos, but I did keep samples. I know that the ootheca was collected in the US, but I am not sure where.

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Contributed by ChristineYoung on 14 May, 2021 - 10:19am
Last updated 16 May, 2021 - 10:41am

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… Bob Zuparko, 16 May, 2021 - 10:41am

Podagrion sp.

A female, they are parasitoids of mantid oothecae.

… Juan Cepeda Espinosa, 14 May, 2021 - 10:30am

Thanks

for the info. Do you know anyone who would be able to ID it to species? I kept specimens.

… ChristineYoung, 15 May, 2021 - 7:46am

There is a key ...

... to the species of Podagrion from the Nearctic Region in: Grissell & Goodpasture (1981). A review of Nearctic Podagrionini, with description of sexual behavior of Podagrion mantis (Hymenoptera: Torymidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 74: 226-241.

… Bob Zuparko, 15 May, 2021 - 10:24am

Cool,

thanks! I'll see if I can find that.

… ChristineYoung, 16 May, 2021 - 10:44am

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