The following images illustrate a region of wasps call the propodeum which is between the thorax and the remainder of the abdomen (the propodeum is ancestrally an abdominal segment). These two specimens are parasitic wasps from Brazil in the subfamily Diporinae (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Little is known about their biology and they are suspected to parasitize the beetle larvae.
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