Proctotrupidae sp.♂︎

Last update: 9 November 2023
garden
species

LOCATION: Krimpen aan den IJssel, garden

OBSERVATION:
2021-IV-23


I pulled this little wasp out of the pond just a minute before, see here. It turns out to be a Proctotrupidae sp. [1] (thanks to Milo van Loon) a family that I had not observed before.

It is a male, the females have a long awl-shaped ovipositor at the tip of the abdomen.

Proctotrupidae sp. ♂

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