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Chalcid from tiny leaf gall on scrub oak - Closterocerus damastes - female

Chalcid from tiny leaf gall on scrub oak - Closterocerus damastes - Female
Madequecham, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 0.7 mm
I collected a Quercus ilicifolia leaf because it had a Stigmella leaf mine in it, but when this wasp appeared I found its exit hole in a tiny gall in a vein axil.

Moved
Moved from Closterocerus.

Moved
Moved from Eulophidae.
Det. Christer Hansson.

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.

Eulophid…
See reference here.

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