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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Microgastrinae
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wasp?
Copyright © 2009 Kerry S. Matz

wasp?
Salt Lake City, (N40°46.727'W111°52.629'ele4609'), Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
September 30, 2008
Size: 2.7mm
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Contributed by Kerry S. Matz on 17 January, 2009 - 7:40pm
Last updated 20 January, 2009 - 2:55pm

Yes...
The wing venation in Cotesia is quite distinctive, and this appears to be one, but just to be safe because there are several thousand species in this subfamily, this should be placed among other Microgastrinae.
… Ross Hill, 20 January, 2009 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Sounds reasonable
Moved!
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 20 January, 2009 - 2:56pm login or register to post comments

Braconid
It's a Braconid parasitoid of some sort...although I will only put a 90% probability on that since the angle of your picture makes the wing venation look a little confusing. At first it reminded me of a Evaniidae but I'm leaning towards the Braconid subfamily Microgastrinae.
… Chris Grinter, 17 January, 2009 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Cotesia?
Wing venation similar to Cotesia.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 17 January, 2009 - 11:15pm login or register to post comments

 
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Right or Apanteles or something similar, impossible to tell basically without keying out the specimen. Actually I wouldn't be opposed to doing that if anyone wanted to send over Braconids. Getting it to genus is pretty easy.
… Chris Grinter, 17 January, 2009 - 11:25pm login or register to post comments

size
are you sure about the 2.7 mm?? to my lay eye, wing venation looks too rich for such a small parasitoid
… v belov, 17 January, 2009 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

 
2.7mm
abdominal tip to head (sans antennae), size determined by pixel count for the camera/lense at 5x. Should be reliable.
… Kerry S. Matz, 17 January, 2009 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks -- wow
one tiny braconid you've got there; nice to know. could you add more shots -- like, head and abdomen closeups? (i'm just curious to see more of it -- not that i'll be able to add anything material)
… v belov, 17 January, 2009 - 9:32pm login or register to post comments

 
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Makes sense, braconids are small.
… Chris Grinter, 17 January, 2009 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

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