Small parasitoid - Braconid 01 - Cryptoxilos

Moved

Moved from Euphorinae.

… Brad Barnd, 8 June, 2015 - 10:46pm

Moved

Moved from Braconid Wasps.

… Brad Barnd, 8 June, 2015 - 10:22pm

Euphorinae

Looks like Cryptoxilos. If the eyes are nearly touching, then a certain ID.

… Andy Boring, 8 June, 2015 - 3:59pm

thanks Andy

I wouldn't say the eyes are nearly touching, probably separated by about slightly less than the width of the clypeus.

… Brad Barnd, 8 June, 2015 - 10:24pm

well maybe they are!

I did a bit of literature searching for Cryptoxilos, and based on descriptions in Deyrup 1981 and Muesebeck 1936, it is definitely Cryptoxilos. Eyes are converging in front and densely hairy.

I have a series of 3 females taken from a rearing box from which I was collecting Phloeotribus liminaris, which is a similar host to one of the described species.

… Brad Barnd, 8 June, 2015 - 10:45pm

Moved

Moved from parasitic Apocrita.

… Brad Barnd, 28 January, 2011 - 7:31pm

Fam Braconidae

… Victor Kolyada, 28 January, 2011 - 6:29pm

thanks

I had a hunch it might be a braconid, but wasn't sure.

… Brad Barnd, 28 January, 2011 - 7:31pm