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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eupelmidae
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chalcid wasp
Copyright © 2011 Lynette Elliott

chalcid wasp
Naches Trail Preserve, Pierce County, Washington, USA
March 31, 2011
Size: 2 mm
I hope I have a few better images coming, but I'm afraid I'm going to lose the specimen.

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Gary Oak Gall - Cynips mirabilis gall wasp pupa gall wasp pupa gall wasp pupa chalcid wasp chalcid wasp chalcid wasp
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 31 March, 2011 - 3:48pm
Last updated 1 April, 2011 - 9:43am

Moved
Moved from Chalcidoid Wasps.
… Lynette Elliott, 1 April, 2011 - 9:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Lynette Elliott, 1 April, 2011 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

re: chalcid...
… Ross Hill, 31 March, 2011 - 4:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Eupelmid - male…
Looks like another imposter. Laterally, you can see the wide separation between the fore and mid coxae along with an elongated metallic body. Dorsally, you can see the incomplete parapsidal sutures and a long marginal wing vein. Females usually have a more flattened mesonotum (in males, more convex). Hosts include gall midges and gall wasps.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 31 March, 2011 - 4:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Chalcid!
Are you kidding me. Do any speckled gall wasps live in these speckled gall wasp galls? Are there any other photos I should try to get for a species ID?
… Lynette Elliott, 31 March, 2011 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

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