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Brachypterous chalcidoid (?) with thick antennae - Mira mucora
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Brachypterous chalcidoid (?) with thick antennae - Mira mucora
Bette Davis Picnic Area, Los Angeles County, California, USA
February 13, 2012
Size: 2.0 mm
Swept from grasses - collected two of these cool little wasps. Tentatively assuming these are chalcidoids based on metallic coloration and reduced wing venation? I had a hard time getting a good image of the wing veins - there seems to be a marginal vein, but perhaps not a stigmal vein?

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 27 March, 2022 - 5:37pm
Last updated 27 March, 2022 - 8:29pm

Moved
Moved from Chalcidoid Wasps.

Det. R Zuparko - see iNat link here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109701163
… Ken Schneider, 27 March, 2022 - 8:29pm

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