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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Encyrtid Wasps (Encyrtidae) » Encyrtinae » Copidosoma
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Undescribed parasitoid? - Copidosoma - female
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Undescribed parasitoid? - Copidosoma - Female
The Huntington Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 18, 2023
I very strongly suspect (but cannot confirm) the host is Cochylis carmelana. Pyrausta weren't nearby.

See possibly relevant commentary here.

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Undescribed parasitoid? - Copidosoma - female Undescribed parasitoid? - Copidosoma - female
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Contributed by C on 18 April, 2023 - 10:05pm
Last updated 3 September, 2023 - 10:53am

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... of the family Encyrtidae, in the genus Copidosoma, many species of which are parasitoids of Lepidoptera.
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