Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Photo#802961
Parasitic Wasp? - Brachyponera chinensis

Parasitic Wasp? - Brachyponera chinensis
Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia, USA
July 12, 2013
Size: about 2mm
Tiny wasp? on a Magnolia leaf

Moved
These are remarkably different in appearance from the females. Click on the images button above to see...

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Pachydondyla chinensis
I am not so sure about a Braconidae identification. Although the dew makes identification difficult, looks rather like a ponerine ant due to the wing venation and form of the second abdominal segment (first metasomal). This is a Pachyondyla (Brachyponera) chinensis male. It has a terminal metasomal tergal spine, and notauli, the latter character separating it from Hypoponera.

Undoubtedly a parasitic wasp
Probably the family Braconidae.

 
Ant
Braconid specialist, Michael Sharkey, suspects it is an ant. I had the same inclination, and I suppose it would be a male.

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.