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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Rhyssinae » Giant Ichneumonid Wasps (Megarhyssa) » Long-tailed Giant Ichneumonid Wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus) » Megarhyssa macrurus macrurus
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Megarhyssa -- species? - Megarhyssa macrurus
Copyright © 2015 Steven Mlodinow

Megarhyssa -- species? - Megarhyssa macrurus
Neenoshe Reservoir, Kiowa County, Colorado, USA
August 30, 2015
Size: 5 cm, roughly, body length
Pigeon Horntails in area. Strip of largely dead cottonwoods with live black locust and russian olive clumps surrounded by very dry grasslands and ag fields plus expanse of tamarisk
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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 1 September, 2015 - 8:29am
Last updated 7 April, 2023 - 7:34am

Moved
Moved from Long-tailed Giant Ichneumonid Wasp.
… Zachary Dankowicz, 7 April, 2023 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 1 September, 2015 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

Megarhyssa macrurus (female)…
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 1 September, 2015 - 9:06am login or register to post comments

 
M macrurus
Subspecies ID possible?
… Steven Mlodinow, 1 September, 2015 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

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