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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Pteromalid Wasps (Pteromalidae)
Photo#264418
Chalcid Wasp
Copyright © 2009 Sam Houston

Chalcid Wasp
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
April 6, 2009
Size: 2mm (3/32")
Please help with ID.
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Contributed by Sam Houston on 8 April, 2009 - 3:26pm
Last updated 14 April, 2009 - 1:24pm

Chalcid wasp...
Difficult to see details here, but the coloration, swollen femora, and antennae suggest a chalcid wasp in the subfamily Pteromalidae. Looks like this one got a good pollen dusting. Nice find.

See reference here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/16408
… Ross Hill, 8 April, 2009 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Ross, if you are serious about sticking
around here at BugGuide and helping with the IDs, you can request to be made an editor. In addition to giving you the freedom to edit guidepages and move images to their proper place in the guide, it will allow you to see images at full size. This image has actually been posted at 1200 pixels instead of the 560 you see as a non-editor. You might be able to see much more detail which should help with your IDs if you could see the images at their full posted size! Just a thought.

And keep posting those Jackson Co images. It's not just Eric who enjoys a good photo from Oregon. John's brother lives in Roseburg!
… john and jane balaban, 8 April, 2009 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

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