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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Platygastroidea » Scelionidae » Scelioninae » Idris
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Ceraphronid? - Idris - female
Copyright © 2012 Jonas Insinga

Ceraphronid? - Idris - Female
Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA
February 2, 2012
Size: .75mm?
Collected by using a berlese funnel on a soil sample taken from College Woods at the University of New Hampshire.

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Contributed by Jonas Insinga on 2 March, 2012 - 7:40pm
Last updated 27 September, 2020 - 1:36pm

Moved
Moved from Baeus.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 28 August, 2012 - 5:11am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita).
… Jonas Insinga, 3 March, 2012 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

Baeus - female…
The wings of females are reduced to sclerotized plates.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 3 March, 2012 - 9:58am login or register to post comments

 
But the wings on this specimen...
...don't appear to be sclerotized.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 March, 2012 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

 
Second
They're membranous and spoke-like.
… Jonas Insinga, 3 March, 2012 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

 
Correct...
The literature does mention that wings in females can be absent, reduced, or vestigial.
… Ross Hill, 3 March, 2012 - 12:00pm login or register to post comments

Wings
I couldn't see any wings in the Baeus wasps.
… Jonas Insinga, 2 March, 2012 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Exactly why
I deleted that misguided comment. :)

There are some similar critters elsewhere in Platygastridae, though.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 2 March, 2012 - 8:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 2 March, 2012 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

Deleted
Changed my mind. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 2 March, 2012 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

 
I think that it is a female o
I think that it is a female of Idris.
… Popovici Ovidiu, 28 August, 2012 - 2:05am login or register to post comments

 
thanx for the IDs, Ovidiu
… v belov, 28 August, 2012 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

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