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Hi

A nice Parasitica wasp to appreciate. Found on Foeniculum vulgare flowers. This is an Aprostocetus sp.

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Lovely photo! Just need it 1920x1080 pixels for my Desktop

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ok.
I'll give the original file to you. Come to msn.

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Jorge,

Yet another wonderfull picture!! Congrats!!

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Is Aprostocetus the host of Hyménoptères on the photograph?

Doesn't the insect of the photograph appear Eulophidae to me?

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Thanks, Pierre.

So what is it, Camille? Check here too: http://www.forum....amp;t=5642

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No To see here Aprostocetus

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/browseMedia.dsml


Probably photo=hyperparasite!

If this photograph is Chalcidoidea Aprostocetus, then, I am a fly!

Camille

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I don't see any problem with this identification. It could be something like Aprostocetus percaudatus (Silvestri, 1920).

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No resemblance to that of this site of international reputation, sorry!

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/browseMedia.dsml

I never saw a Chalcidoidea Eulophidae with a drill thus!

Empeejay, one photo of the A. percaudatus, please?

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I take it that you didn't see the original description and figure of A. percaudatus in the pdf I linked to above?

I haven't encountered it myself but there is a photo here that is labelled as being this species.

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Hello, I transmitted to Vago French of the Rasplus group for opinion. Let us wait!

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Hello Camille
Accomplished mission: Eulophide is Aprostocetus (Ootetrastichus sub-genus) percaudatus (Silvestri, 1920).It appears in the keys of Graham (1987); being of habitus rather aberrant among Ootetrastichus, I had initially sought in the Aprostocetus sub-genus, without success. The specimen female of my collection belongs to the same species, which is widespread as far as India. I am less certain for the male of my collection, captured the same day and in the same place as the female, and of very similar aspect; indeed, it differs from the description of Graham. However, Graham laid out for its description of 17 females and only one male. And in its work, for 17 species of the sub-genus, the male is unknown for 5 among.Did it have the good male?
The insect is very well illustrated in the original work of Silvestri. Attached its drawing. File pdf of this article is on the site of British Museum. One can also identify it using the key of Kostyukov in Medvedev (1978). Synonym: Aprostocetus indicus (Shafee & Rizvi, 1985); synonymy suspected by Graham (1987), established by Boucek (1988), but curiously not included in version 2001 of Taxapad by Noyes. It is reproduced on the site of British Museum.
The larvae are parasitic in eggs of the Cricket Oecanthus pellucens.
To also note that Kostyukov (2004) regards Ootetrastichus as a kind different of Aprostocetus, which is not included in the base of data of British Museum.

From J.L.VAGO

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Thank you very much, Camille, Vago and Empeejay.
One of a few parasitica wasps identified till species level!