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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 » Homalotylus
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Coccinellid Larval Parasitoids - Part II - Homalotylus
Copyright © 2008 Ken Schneider

Coccinellid Larval Parasitoids - Part II - Homalotylus
Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, USA
September 7, 2008
Size: 2 mm
Wasp - presumably a chalcidoid of some sort. Pteromalidae again?

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 23 September, 2008 - 11:00pm
Last updated 3 February, 2014 - 4:26pm

This is now -
specimen CASENT 9096800.
… Ken Schneider, 7 October, 2020 - 11:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Encyrtids.
… Ken Schneider, 3 February, 2014 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

Genus
Homalotylus.
… Zachary Lahey, 3 February, 2014 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

Chalcidoid-Encyrtidae.
Fam. Encyrtidae.
… Emilian Pricop , 5 April, 2011 - 5:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.
… Ken Schneider, 16 October, 2008 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from parasitic Apocrita.
… Ken Schneider, 13 October, 2008 - 11:41pm login or register to post comments

Adding close ups of antenna and fore tarsus -
moving to Chalcidoidea for now. This seems to key out to Eulophidae (I think there are four tarsal segments and seven flagellar segments, although I'm new at this...). ID help appreciated.
… Ken Schneider, 13 October, 2008 - 11:15pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm wrong again :)
Dr. Gary Gibson was kind enough to look at these images and comments as follows:

"...your critter belongs to the family Encyrtidae. It is one of the families with the mesopleuron as a large, convex, cushion-like region on the side of the thorax. You may or may not be able to see from your specimen that the middle coxae are inserted at or even somewhat anterior to the middle of the mesopleuron whereas in other chalcidoids the middle coxae are inserted near the hind coxa, much more distant from the front coxae. It should also have transverse-triangular axillae on the scutellum. Other features include a very short marginal vein on the forewing. Note also the very long mesotibial spur."

I am going to add these helpful comments to the family guide page as well.
… Ken Schneider, 16 October, 2008 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Beatriz Moisset, 6 October, 2008 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

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