Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Braconidae?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 10-03-2007 18:32
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Hello!

I find these little (3 mm) wasps nearly all the year round in our house. I suspect they parasitize the case bearing clothes moths (Tinea pellionalla) larvae, which also live well here from our cats' hairs (no chance for the vacuum cleaner...) all the year. The only other possibility as hosts that come into my mind, would be carpet beetle larvae (Anthrenus spec.). But those are not so numerous.
Do the wasps belong to the Braconidae? Thanks for any hints!

Bigger picture:
http://www.foto-u...3mm_W2.jpg

Edited by Juergen Peters on 10-03-2007 18:34