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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) » Anomaloninae » Gravenhorstiini
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Wasp, but what kind?
Copyright © 2008 Carmen Champagne

Wasp, but what kind?
Athens/ Rock and Shoals Outcrop, Clarke County, Georgia, USA
March 26, 2008
Size: 3 cm without antennae
I only had time to get this single shot before the wasp flew off, and unfortunately the tip of the abdomen didn't make it into the picture. Though it has the coloration of some Polistes, it is clearly something else... maybe a large ichneumon?
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Contributed by Carmen Champagne on 30 March, 2008 - 1:19pm
Last updated 30 September, 2020 - 10:58pm

Moved
Moved from Anomaloninae.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 30 September, 2020 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… John F. Carr, 29 September, 2009 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

Anomaloninae
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… Bob Carlson, 29 September, 2009 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

A large Ichneumon indeed...
And a gorgeous one. Color pattern strongly reminding of Polistes metricus is obviously linked to mimicry. Although overall habitus is somewhere between Netelia and Banchus, and size matches fairly well with the former, I have no clue for a narrower ID.
I have a poor knowledge even of our restricted West European fauna, then the South-Eastern United States...
… Richard Vernier, 30 March, 2008 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

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