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Anacharis (Anacharitinae) - Anacharis - female

Anacharis (Anacharitinae) - Anacharis - Female
Avondale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
February 8, 2022
Size: ~4 mm body
Observed ovipositing into a 1st or 2nd instar lacewing (Neuroptera) larva (~2mm) on a wildflower stem full of aphids with an outside temperature of 75 degrees F at 3:40 p.m. Legs were orange color except for dark femurs. Thank you to Matthew Buffington for his ID to genus on FB group Hymenopterists Forum. If confirmed, this will be a first for Arizona, at the genus level on BugGuide.

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Anacharis (Anacharitinae) - Anacharis - female Anacharis (Anacharitinae) - Anacharis - female Anacharis (Anacharitinae) - Anacharis - female

Moved
Moved from Anacharitinae.

An incredible image series of
An incredible image series of Anacharis attacking a lacewing larva....that is itself, preying on aphids. What a cool community.

 
Thank you!
Again, appreciate you taking the time to share a comment here on BugGuide in this case.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

 
Hi Bob Zuparko-
How does one go about including a Genus level to BugGuide taxonomy? Still very new to BugGuide and determining what is best or preferred for experts to accomplish on behalf of this site.

 
editors do that
you can request a new page at the appropriate level under the Forums tab –>Requests for Additional Guide Pages

On another note, thanks for getting Matt Buffington to comment on BugGuide!

 
Thank you,
Steve Scholnick, completed and no problem, did not get anyone to do anything, lol. Matt was kind enough to share a comment to assist this community with learning. Not sure experts who contribute here realize how much that matters to novices.

another nice find!
for those of us without Facebook acc'ts, it would be great if you'd quote any comments from Buffington and others on the Facebook forum in your BugGuide posts. Thanks

 
Hi Steve-
Messaged the experts on the group Forum. They may be willing and interested in making comments to support the ID's here on BugGuide. Thank you for reaching out, had not thought about not being able to access Facebook or this particular FB group.

 
Thanks
I appreciate you're doing that and I'm sure others will too. To be honest, as much fun as it might be to join the FB Hymenoptera group, Facebook is a site I avoid. My loss, I guess...

 
I am running one of the FB groups as an admin
and see the advantage of FB as being more interactive and having a greater reach than bugguide. We can tag and poke experts more than here on bugguide :), and new-bes find it more accessable. But I encourage everybody with interesting observations to post here on bugguide as well because the fb posts are not really archived and searchable. So the fb group should by no means replace bugguide.

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