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Torymus from Wool Sower Gall - Torymus - female
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Torymus from Wool Sower Gall - Torymus - Female
Jugtown Plains, Otisfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
August 15, 2012
This tiny wasp emerged from a wool sower gall: .

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Torymus from Wool Sower Gall - Torymus - female Torymus from Wool Sower Gall - Torymus - female
Contributed by metrioptera on 15 August, 2012 - 5:10pm
Last updated 17 December, 2013 - 9:21am

Moved
My torymid contact says it is Torymus but that he isn't able to ID it to species.

Moved from Toryminae.
… Bob Carlson, 15 August, 2012 - 6:36pm

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… metrioptera, 15 August, 2012 - 6:18pm

Right…
These are primary parasitoids of gall wasp larvae that originally invaded the gall. Could be Torymus, but I can't see enough details to confirm. Within the subfamily Toryminae in any event.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 15 August, 2012 - 5:31pm

Maybe...
Torymus? I found it on wool sower gall too.

… Yurika Alexander, 15 August, 2012 - 5:20pm

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