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picked some cute microwasps out of a sample at work today. mostly eupelmids, plus a eulophid, an encyrtid, and one of those things that used to be a pteromalid but got split off into their own family in the 2022 Hell's Heart paper, cleomyid now I think

Very cool, looks like maybe Callocleonymus?

They are tricky, I think Notanisus is pretty similar too. I was trying to do a paper on them but got hung up by not being able to get specimens from other museums. We have at least two species here.

Callocleonymus was correct, and in fact I have three of them. doesn't seem likely I can get them to species but as far as I can tell these are state records for Oregon

Not just Oregon, the Americas; all the others are Asia/Pacific except one from Somalia. I think there are quite a few undescribed though. Can I send you my key to the world species (there's only 9 described, plus 3 new I've found)? You should be able to DM me your email.