Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chalcid wasp ?
Posted by LordV on 11-09-2006 07:59
#1
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.
Posted by Andrius on 11-09-2006 12:05
#2
My coleague, working with hymenopterans told it looks like Pteromalidae.
Posted by Robert Nash on 11-09-2006 12:13
#3
"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
Posted by ChrisR on 11-09-2006 12:42
#4
Torymidae? Not sure how many tarsi they have without pulling one from my collection, but they have that general appearance.
Posted by Robert Nash on 11-09-2006 12:56
#5
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.
Posted by LordV on 11-09-2006 19:38
#6
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
Posted by proctoss on 11-09-2006 20:17
#7
ok, PteromalidaeB)