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 Chalcid wasp ?
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| LordV |
Posted on 11-09-2006 07:59
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Member Location: Posts: 673 Joined: 06.09.05 |
Not a good shot for ID purposes but only managed one shot of this wasp. About 7mm body length. Taken Yesterday South Coast UK. Thanks Brian V.  |
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| Andrius |
Posted on 11-09-2006 12:05
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 315 Joined: 27.01.05 |
My coleague, working with hymenopterans told it looks like Pteromalidae. |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 11-09-2006 12:13
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
"In essence, a "Pteromalid" is any member of the Chalcidoidea that has 5-segmented tarsi and does not have the defining features of any of the remaining families with 5-segmented tarsi. " An artificial family easy to define except by differentiation*.This doesn't look like anything else so Pteromalidae it is. *See differential in Glossary  (opposite diagnostic)Robert Edited by Robert Nash on 11-09-2006 12:49 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 11-09-2006 12:42
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Torymidae? Not sure how many tarsi they have without pulling one from my collection, but they have that general appearance. |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 11-09-2006 12:56
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
Torymidae also have 5 tarsal segments but is the ovipositor (often) much longer than the body at 7mm. total length. No mention of this feature either. |
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| LordV |
Posted on 11-09-2006 19:38
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Member Location: Posts: 673 Joined: 06.09.05 |
Thanks for the ID so far  Not sure if it helps but one other shot of it was not as bad as I thought- at least you can just see the abdomen which is tapered but no ovipositor visible Brian V. 
Edited by LordV on 11-09-2006 19:39 |
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| proctoss |
Posted on 11-09-2006 20:17
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 191 Joined: 12.08.06 |
ok, Pteromalidae |
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