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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)
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Chalid Wasp - female
Copyright © 2010 Robert Lord Zimlich

Chalid Wasp - Female
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
April 1, 2010
Size: 2-3mm
In the Pteromalidae family?
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 2 April, 2010 - 7:14am
Last updated 19 February, 2018 - 8:21am

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.
… v belov, 19 February, 2018 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

Yes this is a Pteromalidae.
The venation looks like Dipachystigma, but I can't be sure it is that genus.
… Bob Zuparko, 18 February, 2018 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eurytomidae.
… Matthias Buck, 27 April, 2010 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Most interesting. Thanks, Ross.

Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 5 April, 2010 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

Eurytomidae…
The sculptured dull black appearance, a rounded, smooth, and compressed abdomen, and rectangular pronotum indicate this family. This is a female. Not a pteromalid due to the longer submarginal wing veins and spot stigmas which are characteristics of this family.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 5 April, 2010 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

Looks almost the same as Peter's...

Once again, we have the same critters in both places at the same time. FWIW, I think you're right on family.
… Ron Hemberger, 2 April, 2010 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

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