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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Parasitic Wood Wasps (Orussidae) » Orussus » Orussus terminalis
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Parasitic Wood Wasp - Orussus terminalis
Copyright © 2004 Tony DiTerlizzi

Parasitic Wood Wasp - Orussus terminalis
Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 10, 2004
I got one shot of this mystery wasp (here on our Hastas) before it flew off.
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Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 24 March, 2005 - 10:59pm
Last updated 23 July, 2008 - 10:09pm

Moved
Moved from Orussus.
… Keith Bayless, 23 July, 2008 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

Orussus terminalis
I just showed this picture to Lars Vilhelmsen (a symphytan and orussid systematist and morphologist, as well as a very highly respected hymenopteran morphologist in general), who confidently identified this specimen as Orussus terminalis. Another North American species looks similar, but the entire metasoma is red, whereas only the last three metasomal segments are red in O. terminalis.
… Ray Fisher, 23 January, 2008 - 12:17pm login or register to post comments

Whoah, an orussid!
This is actually a species of Orussus, family Orussidae. As larvae, they are apparently parasitic (or predatory) on woodboring beetle larvae. Neat wasp, not often seen.
… Eric R. Eaton, 25 March, 2005 - 11:26am login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks for the info Eric!

I wish I got more pics of it now:(

Oh well, I made a guide page for the family and genus.
… Tony DiTerlizzi, 25 March, 2005 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Orussidae
Orussidae is a family of sawflies, so I went ahead and moved your pages under Suborder Symphyta.
… Richard Leung, 25 March, 2005 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Richard
I am always open to moving/editing/adding any of my guide pages:)
… Tony DiTerlizzi, 26 March, 2005 - 8:14am login or register to post comments

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