Megaphragma Caribea
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''Megaphragma caribea'' is a species of
wasp A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder ...
. It has been found acting as an egg parasitoid of ''
Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis ''Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis'' is a species of thrips in the family Thripidae. It is most commonly known as the greenhouse thrips, the glasshouse thrip or black tea thrips. This species of thrips was first described in 1833 by Bouché in Berlin, ...
'' and ''
Selenothrips rubrocinctus ''Selenothrips rubrocinctus'', commonly known as the redbanded thrips, is a species of thrips in the family Thripidae. It was first described from the West Indies but may have originated in northern South America. It has spread to other parts of ...
'', which live on the plant ''
Terminalia catappa ''Terminalia catappa'' is a large Tropics, tropical tree in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae, native to Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Madagascar and Seychelles. Common names in English include country almond, Indian almond, Malabar almond, ...
'' in Colombia. It has a body length of only 181–224 μm.


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Trichogrammatidae Insects described in 1993 {{chalcidoidea-stub