Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Very strange micro-hymenoptera

Posted by Isidro on 30-09-2007 20:46
#1
Yesterday at Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. 200 meters high. Continental-Mediterranean climate. Habitat: in the wall of my house. Urban zone, with street trees (Gleditsia, Ligustrum, Robinia) and my garden is near. Size: very small, about 1'5-2 mm long.

At first look I thinked in a Geocoris but smaller. I taked it and saw a giant scutellum covering more than half if the body. There are a family of flies with these descomunal scutellums, but the antennae make me think that i't an hymenoptera.

What species can be? As you can see, i't blue-steel.

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Thanks ;)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-09-2007 21:43
#2
Signiphoridae...?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 30-09-2007 22:17
#3
Perilampidae?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 30-09-2007 22:18
#4
no... antenna doesn't fit. :(

Posted by Gerard Pennards on 30-09-2007 23:28
#5
It is:
Family Pteromalidae, subfamily Tridyminae, tribus Eunotini, and the species is Scutellista cyanea!!:D:D
Greetings,

Posted by Paul Beuk on 01-10-2007 07:52
#6
Too long ago that I have seen that one. ;)

Posted by Isidro on 01-10-2007 14:42
#7
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!! To species level!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many thanks Gerard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D