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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eurytomidae
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black bee? with red eyes
Copyright © 2014 Timothy Calkins

black bee? with red eyes
Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
September 1, 2014
Size: 2-3mm
really tiny, not sure if a bee or wasp, seen on ironweed flower bud

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Contributed by Timothy Calkins on 3 September, 2014 - 8:48am
Last updated 3 September, 2014 - 10:07am

Moved
Moved from Chalcid Wasps.
… Joe, 3 September, 2014 - 10:07am login or register to post comments

Looks like Eurytomidae.
.
… Joe, 3 September, 2014 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

 
thanks very much
that does look like a good match.
… Timothy Calkins, 3 September, 2014 - 9:23am login or register to post comments

 
Yes...
Based on the punctate head and thorax, dull black appearance, rectangular pronotum, oval and compressed abdomen, etc.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 3 September, 2014 - 9:09am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 3 September, 2014 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

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