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Genus Gastrancistrus

Small Wasp - Gastrancistrus - female microscopic wasp looking critter - Gastrancistrus microscopic wasp looking critter - Gastrancistrus Gastrancistrus reared from grape gall - Gastrancistrus - male Gastrancistrus Gastrancistrus Pteromalidae - Gastrancistrus Toryminae? - Gastrancistrus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Chalcidoidea (Chalcidoid Wasps)
Family Pirenidae
Genus Gastrancistrus
Explanation of Names
Gastrancistrus Westwood 1833
Numbers
by far the largest genus of the subfamily, with 23 spp. in our area, ~140 worldwide(1)
Food
Virtually all recorded hosts are gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)(1)
Works Cited
1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 9 January, 2014 - 6:31pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 10 September, 2018 - 8:10am

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