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Seed-pod sitter - Bothriothorax

Seed-pod sitter - Bothriothorax
Alameda County, California, USA
November 15, 2009
Size: ~1/8 in., 3 mm, w/o wings
On a radish seed pod. First sighted in this rearing posture. Later it lowered its front end. Too small for clear photos, sorry.

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Moved
Moved from Encyrtids.

Aphid parasitoid, perhaps?
Would this be a kind that creates aphid mummies? It was on a radish plant in a small patch of radishes going to seed that are heavily infested with mealy cabbage aphids, Brevicoryne brassicae. A few mummies occur among the live aphids.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

REALLY going out on a limb here...
but could it be a chalcid wasp of some variety? Maybe something like this?



I will eagerly await an expert's opinion on this one!

 
An "expert" is coming - Encyrtidae
This is indeed a Chalcidoid Wasp, but from the Encyrtidae family, not a Perilampus sp. like the Wasp you've linked.

 
So close,
and yet so far.

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