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 Chalcidoid wasp
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| LordV |
Posted on 22-06-2006 14:30
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Cleaning itself on my back door-Taken today South Coast UK bug about 6mm long not including ovipositor. Any ideas? Thanks- Have edited the size estimation Brian V. 
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 22-06-2006 14:34
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Not an ichneumonid but a chalcidoid. Maybe Pteromalidae...?
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| LordV |
Posted on 22-06-2006 14:42
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Thanks Paul- wrong again  I'm quite good on the photography but useless on the ID Brian v. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 22-06-2006 14:49
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
May be a better guess is Torymidae, but I hope there is someone who is better conversed with this group.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-06-2006 14:55
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Lovely photo! Well, I have done a (little) bit of work with chalcids and it certainly looks like a Torymus sp.  but they're a horrendously difficult genus to key out... I have the key and probably tried it twice before giving up!  Many of the torymids are parasitoids of galls - eg. T.nitens/auratus, which attacks the "Marble Gall" (Andricus kollari) found on Oaks. Edited by ChrisR on 22-06-2006 14:59 |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 22-06-2006 15:17
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
No time right now but try the image browse on The Universal Chalcidoid Database for the family. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/  I'll take anther look tomorrow. |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 23-06-2006 13:52
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
Certainly Torymidae and Chris is most probably right .Contact John Noyes at the Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk//research-curation/staff-directory/entomology/cv-3601.html for an expert confirmation He will want permission to use your superb photograph if he can arrive at an id. Who wouldn't? Specimen next time I hope. Another possibility is Csaba Thuroczy in Korstag Hungary:- Thur?czy Csaba [thuroczy.cs@freemail.hu] |
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| LordV |
Posted on 23-06-2006 22:04
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Thanks Robert for the links- I will contact John Noyes Brian V. |
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| LordV |
Posted on 10-07-2006 14:50
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Just an update- initial view of John Noyes is that it is a Monodontomerus sp. Just looked at some pics of Monodontomerus dentipes and it does look very similar. May get further ID info shortly Brian V. |
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