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Conostigmus
Photo#98287
Copyright © 2007
Stephen Luk
Tiny Parasitic Wasp -
Conostigmus
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Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
March 10, 2007
Size: <1 mm
The wasp expired much more quickly than I had expected. I do not know what the host species is, but it should be the larva of a fungus-feeding species.
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Contributed by
Stephen Luk
on 15 March, 2007 - 2:55pm
Last updated 5 August, 2010 - 6:16pm
Moved
Moved from
Megaspilidae
.
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Keith Bayless
, 28 December, 2007 - 12:41pm
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Moved
Moved from
Ceraphronidae
. This is close enough to move to family page. There are some other parasitoids, dryinids I think, that can have similar wing venation.
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Brad Barnd
, 5 November, 2007 - 7:34pm
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Moved
Moved from
parasitic Apocrita
.
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Beatriz Moisset
, 13 August, 2007 - 5:08pm
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Ceraphrontid Wasp (family Ceraphrontidae)
Venation is indeed vestigial, but curved "marginal" vein is diagnostic.
Most of these tiny wasps parasitize Homopteran hosts.
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Richard Vernier
, 16 March, 2007 - 4:08am
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Thanks, Richard
I was afraid that the photo wasn't clear enough for identification. This was quite a tiny wasp indeed.
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Stephen Luk
, 17 March, 2007 - 1:32pm
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