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Tiny thread-like wasp - Ophionellus texanus - male
Copyright © 2012 Bob Barber

Tiny thread-like wasp - Ophionellus texanus - Male
Dog Canyon, Otero County, New Mexico, USA
May 22, 2012
for size next to a whitethorn Acacia thorn

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Contributed by Bob Barber on 22 May, 2012 - 10:49am
Last updated 22 May, 2012 - 1:00pm

Moved
In the Dasch key to the species of Ophionellus, couplet 5 reads: "Male genital stylet rod-like, white on basal 0.7;..." Dasch described the base of the hind femur as "tawny," but it probably isn't as decisively white in less than optimally preserved specimens as it would be in live ones. There is one species described from the eastern US for which the male is unknown, but texanus is the only one with this sort of male clasper. It is somewhat reminiscent of the claspers of male Mesochorinae.

Moved from Anomaloninae.
… Bob Carlson, 22 May, 2012 - 12:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Correction
Hind tibia, not femur.
… Bob Carlson, 22 May, 2012 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

 
nice, nice...
thanks for the addition, Bob & Bob
… v belov, 22 May, 2012 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Barber, 22 May, 2012 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

anomalonine of sorts?
… v belov, 22 May, 2012 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

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