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| metafemur large, compressed, and ventrally serrate or dentate over at least apical third, metatibia distinctly curved. usually not metallic - black, brown, some yellow. modified hind legs used for grasping host (Leps and Dips) and fighting back-to-back |
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| ovipositor curved back over metasoma, metacoxae large, metafemur large and compressed, dentate as in *Chalcididae, black and yellow. ectoparasitoids of Apiformes, Vespidae, and Sphecidae |
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| pronotum square. black. mesosoma coarsely sculptured, metasoma elongate and tapered, smooth and shining. diverese hosts: phytophogous, entomophagous, or both - feeding on stems, galls, seeds, and other larvae in them |
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| process of elimination - have 5 tarsomeres but not suite of characters that other families have. often metallic. diverse biology. |
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| flattened head, long ovipositor. true fig wasps, coevolved. males from same fig find females, mate with them, females emerge from gall in fig ovary, coated with pollen, fly to new fig |
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| metallic (green) mesosoma and shiny brown metasoma. in lateral view head and mesosoma distinctly convex with head facing ventrally. metacoxae large, subtriangular in cross section. metasomal terga with transverse rows of setae and/or deep punctures. primary or hyperparasitoids of galling insects (Cynipidae and Tephritidae) |
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| mesosoma metallic blue and punctured. metasoma shiny and triangular. hyperparasitoids of Tachinids or Ichneumonids in Leps, or primary on wood-boring Coleoptera. host finding done by larva stage called planidium that is ectoparasite |
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| shiny brown. head small, triangular, sits low on thorax in lateral view. mesosoma large, bulky. antennae may be modified. apex of scutellum high above petiole. female lays egg in plant, planidium larvae attaches with mandibles to ant travels to nest and develops as ecotparasitoid of ant pupae |
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| difficult to characterize. long mesotibial spur. eyes diverging ventrally in anterior view. various hosts: wood-boring Colepotera, Cecidomyiidae, Platygastridae, etc. Females of Eupelminae jump with acropleuron and often die in inverted u shape. |
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| enlargd prepectus. males with pectinate antennae. phytophagous gall formers except Cynipencyrtus which feeds on Cynipids on Quercus |
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