Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Braconidae?
Posted by Juergen Peters on 10-03-2007 18:32
#1
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
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-03-2007 19:40
#2
no. I think this wasp belongs to the Proctotrupidae family.
Anyone agree? :)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 11-03-2007 00:01
#3
Hello, Jorge!
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
I think this wasp belongs to the Proctotrupidae family.
Interesting! That would most probably mean, that some beetle larvae are the hosts of it (only some are known from Nematocera). But among the several coleoptera genera from which Proctotrupidae were drawn, there were no Dermestids(http://www.faunistik.net/PONLINE/HYMENOPTERA/PROCTOTRUPOIDEA/PROCTOTRUPIDAE/proctotrupidae.html, german).
Posted by Jan Willem on 13-03-2007 16:37
#4
Hi J?rgen,
Difficult to see the details, even on your larger picture. If it is a braconid wasp, I would expect it to be a member of the Microgastrinae. I will ask around.
Jan Willem
Posted by Juergen Peters on 13-03-2007 21:35
#5
Hello, Jan Willem!
Jan Willem wrote:
Difficult to see the details, even on your larger picture. If it is a braconid wasp, I would expect it to be a member of the Microgastrinae. I will ask around.
Thanks! These little critters accompany me for years now in the house, but I haven't managed to find closer informations about them, still less identify them, yet.
Posted by Jan Willem on 19-03-2007 16:43
#6
Hi J?rgen,
I just got confirmation (from Kees van Achterberg) that your wasp is indeed a member of the Microgastrinae (Braconidae). It is probably a species in the genus
Microplitis.
Jan Willem
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-03-2007 01:32
#7
this just shows that I know nothing yet about wasps. :(
Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-03-2007 02:19
#8
Hello, Jan Willem!
Jan Willem wrote:
I just got confirmation (from Kees van Achterberg) that your wasp is indeed a member of the Microgastrinae (Braconidae). It is probably a species in the genus Microplitis.
Wonderful, thanks! That's more than I expected.