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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Agathidinae
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Small Wasp - female
Copyright © 2012 Stephen Hart

Small Wasp - Female
Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington, USA
September 2, 2008
Size: ~ 6 mm
Small wasp with red abdomen laying in Entire-leaved Gumweed, Grindelia integrifolia.
Might this be a parasite or parasitoid where the eggs or larvae attach to other visiting insects?

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Contributed by Stephen Hart on 14 March, 2012 - 4:34pm
Last updated 16 November, 2020 - 9:14pm

Moved
Moved from Lytopylus.
… Arturo Santos, 16 November, 2020 - 9:14pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Lytopylus sp., possibly bakeri (Muesebeck). Det. Dr. Michael Sharkey. He says that, in most of the literature, bakeri had been placed in Agathis or Bassus.

Moved from Agathidinae.
… Bob Carlson, 14 March, 2012 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
The eggs are inserted into larvae of Lepidoptera.

Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Bob Carlson, 14 March, 2012 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Braconid
"The eggs are inserted into larvae of Lepidoptera."

Of very small larvae that are in the flower? I have seen caterpillars of various sizes on these flowers, but in the two shots I have of this wasp obviously ovipositing, there's no host visible.
… Stephen Hart, 14 March, 2012 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

 
First Instar
According to Sharkey (2006), most Agathidinae "...are solitary, attack first instar Lepidoptera larvae in concealed microhabitats such as leaf-rolls or stems, and emerge from the last larval instar after it has spun its cocoon."
… Bob Carlson, 14 March, 2012 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Cool. I'll check out the paper.
… Stephen Hart, 14 March, 2012 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

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