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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eucharitidae » Eucharitinae » Pseudometagea » Pseudometagea schwarzii
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Another mystery orchard wasp - Pseudometagea schwarzii
Copyright © 2010 Stacy G. Mates

Another mystery orchard wasp - Pseudometagea schwarzii
Kapnick Orchards, Britton, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA
July 30, 2009
Size: 2 mm
From vacuum sampling in apple trees at Kapnick Orchards. I'm stumped - Pteromalidae? Eurytomidae? Eucharitidae? Doesn't seem to quite fit any of them. I took both this side shot and a ventral one that better shows the wing venation and petiole (which seems to have two bulbous/enlarged sections).

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Contributed by Stacy G. Mates on 25 March, 2010 - 11:46am
Last updated 28 March, 2017 - 11:02pm

Moved
Moved from Eucharitidae.
… v belov, 5 August, 2011 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

Pseudometagea schwarzii (Ashmead)
(Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae): parasitoids of Lasius (Formicinae).
… John Heraty, 5 August, 2011 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

 
many thanks again, John!
another genus for the Guide, Stacy! thanks for sharing -- and please keep them coming. =v=
… v belov, 5 August, 2011 - 12:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 30 March, 2010 - 8:48pm login or register to post comments

Definitely not Eurytomidae
I would go with Eucharitidae, the mesoscutum fits the description
… Miles Zhang, 25 March, 2010 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

 
I agree - Eucharitidae
Third guess was the good one.
… Richard Vernier, 25 March, 2010 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks!
… Stacy G. Mates, 25 March, 2010 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

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