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Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

  • Pentatomidae  70eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-08 14:46:24

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Pentatomidae eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 70
  •   71eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-13 16:38:22

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 71
  •   72eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-15 19:37:53

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 72
  •   73eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-16 10:29:51

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 73
  •   74eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-17 16:22:58

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    eggs
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 74
  •   75freshly hatched
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-18 11:11:14

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    freshly hatched
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 75
  • Trissolcus sp.  76freshly hatched parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-19 11:14:17

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. freshly hatched parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 76
  • Trissolcus sp.  77freshly hatched parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-19 11:14:21

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. freshly hatched parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 77
  •   78
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-20 12:54:19

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 78
  • Trissolcus sp.  79parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-26 15:58:43

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 79
  • Trissolcus sp.  80parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-26 15:58:10

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 80
  • Trissolcus sp.  81parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-26 15:56:18

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 81
  • Trissolcus sp.  82parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-26 15:55:08

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 82
  • Trissolcus sp.  83parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-26 15:52:37

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 83
  • Trissolcus sp.  85parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-21 16:22:00

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
    Trissolcus sp. parasitoid
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 85
  •   84
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2021-08-19 11:12:41

    6   Eiparasitoiden (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) aus dem Gelege einer Baumwanze (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)  Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Trissolcus sp.) emerged from a shieldbug egg clutch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    Image number: 84

On 8 August 2021 I found a clutch of 14 light green shieldbug eggs on the underside of a maple leaf. After 5 days, the now cream-coloured eggs had lost their green colouring. 2 days later, life could be seen developing in the transparent egg cases. The reddish-brown spots initially documented the development of the compound eyes and ocelli of the egg case inhabitants, which took on a dark colouration before hatching. 10 days after the finding, the first small wasp hatched. After 12 days all egg cases were abandoned. The first wasp, a male, differs by its slender, evenly coloured antennae from the later hatched female wasps (last 5 segments darkened and more club-shaped). The wasps, about 1.5 mm in size, moved very quickly and lived for about 1 week.
On closer inspection of the photos, a few small, whitish, approx. 0.6 mm long eggs of unknown origin can still be seen between the shieldbug eggs (last picture).