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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) » Cryptinae » Cryptini » Mesostenina » Mesostenus » Mesostenus gracilis
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unnidentified ichneumon - Mesostenus gracilis - female
Copyright © 2015 Steve Scholnick

unnidentified ichneumon - Mesostenus gracilis - Female
Brookside Gardens, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
October 12, 2015
Size: ~8mm
a female ichneumon that I suspect may be in the same genus as the one thumbed below (which was found a couple of weeks earlier within maybe 20 feet of this spot). The female’s wings are a mess because she was recovering from getting wet. The length excludes the antennae and ovipositor.

Any help I can get with furthering the ID of these wasps would be much appreciated. TIA.


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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 20 October, 2015 - 10:32pm
Last updated 30 September, 2020 - 9:35pm

Moved
Moved from Cryptini.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 30 September, 2020 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Steve Scholnick, 2 May, 2019 - 10:52pm login or register to post comments

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