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Lasioptera vitis - female
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Lasioptera vitis - Female
Dead Horse Valley, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA
June 5, 2013
Size: 1.2 mm
Inquiline from grape blister galls caused by an undescribed species of Vitisiella, collected August 6, 2012.
Det. Raymond J. Gagné.

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Lasioptera vitis - female Lasioptera vitis - female Lasioptera vitis - female
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 9 August, 2013 - 9:51am
Last updated 9 August, 2013 - 11:01am

Female?
I assume that's the ovipositor.
… John F. Carr, 9 August, 2013 - 10:51am

 
I guess so
That's what I was thinking too.
… Charley Eiseman, 9 August, 2013 - 11:01am

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