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Braconid Wasp: Chrysopophthorus americanus? - Chrysopophthorus americanus - female
Copyright © 2009 StevenBren

Braconid Wasp: Chrysopophthorus americanus? - Chrysopophthorus americanus - Female
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
June 30, 2009
Size: 6~7 mm
Compare with #296439. Both a male and female were at the light, and the male is almost half the size of the female. The male disappeared before new photos were taken, but the female hung around for several shots.

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Braconid Wasp: Chrysopophthorus americanus? - Chrysopophthorus americanus - female Braconid Wasp: Chrysopophthorus americanus? - Chrysopophthorus americanus - female
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Contributed by StevenBren on 1 July, 2009 - 6:50am
Last updated 8 December, 2009 - 5:09pm

female Chrysopopthorus americanus -- S.R. Shaw det.
Moved from Euphorinae.
… v belov, 8 December, 2009 - 5:09pm login or register to post comments

outlandish
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… v belov, 1 July, 2009 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

Maybe
you could email Andy Boring and ask for his help.
http://bugguide.net/user/view/5627
… John R. Maxwell, 1 July, 2009 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

Euphorinae…
The petiolate abdomen, coloration, size, the presence of occipital carina, an exerted ovipositor, and a curved and angled Cu1A wing vein do, indeed, suggest this subfamily. The reference in this guide for C. americanus (#181632) does not mention how that particular species ID was arrived at, so I wouldn't count on it being correct unless it was keyed out to species by a trained taxonomist. Until then, I would leave this at the subfamily level. Nice photos.

See reference here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/52386
… Ross Hill, 1 July, 2009 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

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