Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chalcidoid wasp
Posted by LordV on 22-06-2006 14:30
#1
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.
Edited by LordV on 11-07-2006 07:00
Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-06-2006 14:34
#2
Not an ichneumonid but a chalcidoid. Maybe Pteromalidae...?
Posted by LordV on 22-06-2006 14:42
#3
Thanks Paul- wrong again :)
I'm quite good on the photography but useless on the ID :)
Brian v.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 22-06-2006 14:49
#4
May be a better guess is Torymidae, but I hope there is someone who is better conversed with this group.
Posted by ChrisR on 22-06-2006 14:55
#5
Lovely photo! :)
Well, I have done a (little) bit of work with chalcids and it certainly looks like a
Torymus sp. :D 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
Posted by Robert Nash on 22-06-2006 15:17
#6
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/ :p:p
I'll take anther look tomorrow.
Posted by Robert Nash on 23-06-2006 13:52
#7
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]
Posted by LordV on 23-06-2006 22:04
#8
Thanks Robert for the links- I will contact John Noyes
Brian V.
Posted by LordV on 10-07-2006 14:50
#9
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.