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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Ormyridae » Ormyrus » Ormyrus vacciniicola
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wasp - Ormyrus vacciniicola
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

wasp - Ormyrus vacciniicola
Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 2.5mm
This wasp came out of the same gall as this other wasp. Is this just the female of the same species?

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Contributed by tom murray on 18 March, 2011 - 11:05pm
Last updated 23 March, 2011 - 8:58pm

Moved
Moved from Ormyrus. I checked the Catalog, and this is the only Ormyrus with this host (and as far as is known, it is specific to this host).
… Charley Eiseman, 23 March, 2011 - 8:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Ormyrus vacciniicola
Charley, thanks for getting one of these to species! I got lucky that only one wasp is a parasite to this gall.
… tom murray, 29 March, 2011 - 10:31am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
Thanks Don.
… tom murray, 19 March, 2011 - 2:35pm login or register to post comments

Ormyrus sp.
I may be wrong, but I think it is a hyperparasite of the other species (definitely not a member of the opposite sex). I suspect that if the Hymenoptera Catalog was consulted that a name could be put on the Ormyrus.
… Donald S. Chandler, 19 March, 2011 - 2:03pm login or register to post comments

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