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Rhyssinae - female
Copyright © 2007 Libby & Rick Avis

Rhyssinae - Female
Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
August 2, 2007
Wondering if this is a Pimplinae sp ?
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Contributed by Libby & Rick Avis on 2 February, 2008 - 3:42pm
Last updated 2 September, 2009 - 12:19pm

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Libby & Rick Avis, 2 September, 2009 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

Rhyssinae…
The large size, a very long thin ovipositor, a cylindrical abdomen becoming dorsolaterally compressed apically, the hind coxae length being more than twice the width, and the first metasomal segment narrowed anteriorly, but posteriorly evenly broadened indicate this group. Some have a small triangular areolet which is the case in this female.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 2 September, 2009 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for such detailed reply & for the AEI link!
… Libby & Rick Avis, 2 September, 2009 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from All black.
… Lynette Schimming, 7 June, 2008 - 9:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pimplinae.
… Libby & Rick Avis, 5 February, 2008 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

Don't know.
I'm looking forward to the day I can sit down leisurely with my microscope and begin to make heads or tails (ovipositors?) out of the ichneumons. When (or 'if') I ever do, Bugguide folks will be the first to know:-) My gut says this is not in Pimplinae, but I could definitely be wrong!
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 February, 2008 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

 
OK
- I'll move it to "Black Ichneumons" !
… Libby & Rick Avis, 5 February, 2008 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

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