Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Wasp and mealybug
Posted by zcuc on 23-09-2008 10:47
#1
This tiny wasp (hence the bad quality of photo) was traveling on a plant infested with mealybug (Phenacoccus solani). I assume it is a parasitic wasp.
Any ideas about family/genus?
Posted by zcuc on 23-09-2008 10:53
#2
photo 2:
Another wasp same size same plant same behavior.
Edited by zcuc on 23-09-2008 10:54
Posted by zcuc on 23-09-2008 10:55
#3
And another view
Edited by zcuc on 23-09-2008 10:55
Posted by Paul Beuk on 23-09-2008 12:19
#4
Both, I think, are Encyrtidae.
Posted by cthirion on 23-09-2008 13:07
#5
Many photograph here :
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/keys1_14.html
Posted by zcuc on 24-09-2008 09:10
#6
Thanks both