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Caenacis inflexa is an occasional visitor to bedeguar galls due to it being a primary parasitoid of Periclistus brandtii and a hyperparasitoid on Eurytoma rosae.
Prior to 1944 C. inlexa was not considered a species from Pteromalus bedeguaris until Callen recognised C. inflexa as a seperate species after examining over a thousand specimens. He seperated the two on a basis of small diferences in the antennae and forewings. He also stated that the females could be seperated by body length alone, P. bedeguaris being averagly 1.4mm longer than C. inflexa, although with a very large variation in size from one individual to another, this is not perhaps the most trustworthy method.
The female wasp measures 2.4-4mm, averaging out at 2.8mm.
The head and thorax are dark green and bronze with gold tints. The clypeus has striae that extend up the face and cheeks as well as bottom edge of the clypeus being clearly incised. The antenna are part way up the eye line, dark in colour with 6 funicular segments and a long conspicuous scape. The wings have well developed stigmal and post marginal veins and the basel cell has many microtichia (tiny hairs). The legs are brown tapering down to pale with 5 tarsel segments. They have a golden bronze gaster (abdomen).
The male wasp measures 1.8-2.7mm, averaging out at 2.4mm.
The head and thorax are very dark green with gold gleams. The clypeus has striae that extend up the face and cheeks as well as bottom edge of the clypeus being clearly incised. The antenna are part way up the eye line, dark in colour with 6 funicular segments, the first segment of which is as long as it is broad, unlike Pteromalus bedeguaris and a long bright conspicuous scape. The wings have well developed stigmal and post marginal veins and the basel cell has many microtichia (tiny hairs). The legs are brown tapering down to pale with 5 tarsel segments. They have a golden bronze gaster (abdomen).