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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 25-06-2006 03:22
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 Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3308 Joined: 17.10.05 |
June 24, 2006. Collected by sweeping on the edge of our town park. Size 5mm, moved fast, never attempted to fly. Could anyone please suggest at least family. Dmitry Gavryushin attached the following image:  [96.24Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-06-2006 10:50
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like a parasitic wasp - superfamily Chalcidoidea, family most likely to be Pteromalidae... any more would require John Noyes at the BM(NH), London because Pteromalidae seems to be the 'dumping' family ... anything that doesn't fit another family goes into Pteromalidae!  If you are interested in keying them out you first need to confirm the family and I think that is still best done with "The Hymenoptera" by Ian Gauld and Barry Bolton. This is a really useful book that covers the whole order with keys to family at least. If you are happy it is a pteromalid then you need "Illustrated key to West-Palearctic Genera of Pteromalidae" by Zdenek Boucek and Jean Yves Rasplus. This is a nice book but the illustrations are not as beautiful as your photos - they are purely line-drawings and SEM photos of body parts to aid the keying process. Lovely photos by the way. Do you collect these insects and then photograph them in a small 'studio' at home? And what lens/flash equipment are you using?  |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 25-06-2006 12:46
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
12 antennal segments.......why not.....Cleptidae?
cthirion |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-06-2006 15:30
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
You could be right cthirion - well done ... now I am just trying to work out how I got my ID so wrong!  |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 25-06-2006 17:58
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3308 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Many thanks Chris and cthirion, My best guess initially was Chrysididae, it bent its head downwards (without turning into a ball), yet I never saw a Chrysididae like this. Now I also think it resembles a Cleptes sp. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-06-2006 20:31
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I don't think Cleptes are very commonly met in the countryside. Ironically, I caught a few Cleptes a few years ago but they were in a Malaise trap ... and somehow they don't look as good when they are pickled!! |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 26-06-2006 08:43
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3308 Joined: 17.10.05 |
There's a friend of mine who studies Chrysididae, so there's a good chance we'll learn the exact ID soon  . |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 26-06-2006 09:10
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19363 Joined: 11.05.04 |
View an image here: http://internt.nh...31_W_1.jpg. In my experience, you see them very little but they can suddenly turn up regularly in Malaise traps. Interesting to see Chris' remark above. Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 26-06-2006 09:42
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3308 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Thanks Paul, I've also found that classical picture by Curtis. |
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| Jan Willem |
Posted on 26-06-2006 12:39
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 Member Location: Waalwijk, The Netherlands Posts: 2136 Joined: 24.07.04 |
Hi Dima, A friend of mine (Theo Peeters) identified your specimen as a female of Cleptes semiauratus (Chrysididae: Cleptinae). Jan Willem |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 26-06-2006 14:00
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3308 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Great, thank you Jan, so it's settled! |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 28-06-2006 17:47
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
Only to add http://www.chrysis.net/index_en.php is a nice site devoted to Chrysididae (from Weblinks Other Insects) Robert
Edited by Robert Nash on 28-06-2006 17:48 |
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