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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eulophidae » Tetrastichinae
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Eulophid wasp - male
Copyright © 2010 Peter Bryant

Eulophid wasp - Male
Elephant Tree area, Anza Borrego State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
April 8, 2010
Size: 1.5 mm bl
Hatched from Sponge Gall collected 03/17 on Artemesia tridentata

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Sponge Gall from Artemesia Tridentata - Rhopalomyia pomum Sponge Gall from Artemesia Tridentata - Rhopalomyia pomum Eulophid wasp - male Eulophid wasp - male Eulophid wasp
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Contributed by Peter Bryant on 8 April, 2010 - 7:27pm
Last updated 21 February, 2018 - 1:31pm

Moved
Moved from Eulophidae.
… Bob Zuparko, 21 February, 2018 - 1:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eurytomidae.
… v belov, 22 May, 2011 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eulophidae.
… Peter Bryant, 22 May, 2011 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eurytomidae.
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… Charley Eiseman, 31 December, 2010 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

Eurytomidae…
The sculptured dull black appearance (camera flash makes it appear shiny), punctate head, rounded, smooth, and compressed abdomen, wing venation, and rectangular pronotum indicate this family. Both males and females can have hairy antennae (sometimes pectinate in males) - this is likely an emerging female because males typically have a more petiolate abdomen. Most are parasitic on gall-forming insect larvae, others feed exclusively on plant seeds that may also form galls (seed chalcids).

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 11 April, 2010 - 11:02pm login or register to post comments

great antennae!
Here's a similar wasp, a eulophid. Wait for the opinion of someone who really knows about these wasps though....
… Joyce Gross, 8 April, 2010 - 10:35pm login or register to post comments

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