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I have a question related to a paper I'm working on. I am working on an article on Warren O. Addicott (sort of a very late memorial). Doing a google search for "addicotti" I've across a wasp, Pleistodontes addicotti Wiebes (1991) (Wiebes JT. 1991. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, VII (Pleist- odontes). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad- emie van Wetenschappen 94: 137–152). I need to check this article to see if this species is named for Warren Addicott, but I cannot find a pdf of the paper. Can anyone help? Thanks.
The images depict two similar specimens, although they appear somewhat different. Specimen on images 1 to 4 was collected on a yellow trap with glue. It was removed with dipentene (lemonene) and treated with acetone fumes to prevent body collapse. I think this treatment altered the metallic sheen on thorax that is visible on the second specimen. This specimen has its wings removed but they show the same pattern visible on the second specimen. Specimen on images 5 to 7 was collected on a yellow pan trap (Moericke type) and simply dry mounted. We can see that the thorax has bluish-green metallic sheen. Most distinctive is the antennae with an expanded flat scape and very transverse and flat funicle segments. Clava is 3 segmented. The wing pattern of dark spots presents a distinctive one that looks like an "8" on the disk, bellow the stigma.
Can anyone of you with Chalcidoidea experience give me some clue as to the identity of this beautiful species?





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I have already started to study the eulophidae family. I have 3 different identification keys for the diglyphus but each of them give me different results. So i am not sure about my identifications.
Full reference: Graham, M.W.R. de V. (1991), A reclassification of the European Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): revision of the remaining genera. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute No 49, 322pp
I think this small Chalcid (body lenght - 0,6 mm) belongs to Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) family. Antennae include 6 segments. I found it in the litter of pine forest. Could some expert comment my opinion?

I caught several specimen of these wasps on different dry grassland sites in Eastern Germany. I've got really no idea about the function of the extraordinarily shaped petiolus. It looks like a kind of suit-case handle, but I think it's no deformation.

We have been struggling to gather more gene fragments data for multiple loci species delimitation for Chalcidoidea, especially the family eulophidae. There has been a tradition to sequence both 28S D2 and COI in the lab. However, the standard primers for COI works at roughly 60% success rate. We also expect to sequence 3-5 more gene fragments for these tiny wasps. We do appreciate if you provide some valuable informations/approaches on more efficient COI primers or other gene primers.
Thanks in advance.
Trichomalopsis is a pupal parasitoid of dipterans. Its counterpart Nesolynx thymus parasitizes even upto 100% whereas the Trichomalopsis prefers to sting & kill >80% pupae instead of utilizing them for its progeny production. is there a similar behaviour in any other parasitoids? If so, pl share few references.
Hey, i am working as a lab-assistant and got a huge pile of samples from the field with Trichogramma species inside. Does anyone know of some published keys to determine Trichogramma to species level (most for all T. evanescens and T. cacociae)?