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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Leucospidae » Leucospis » Leucospis affinis » Leucospis affinis affinis

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Copyright © 2008 Charles S. Matson

Chalcid Wasp - Leucospis affinis -

State Line Lookout, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
July 10, 2008

Leucospis affinis? This wasp did not alight. The in-flight picture is not very sharp, but it looks OK for a NJ data point, if confirmed.

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Contributed by Charles S. Matson on 23 July, 2008 - 11:40pm
Last updated 16 June, 2021 - 2:12am

Moved

Moved from Leucospis affinis.

… Jonathan Hoskins, 16 June, 2021 - 2:12am

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Moved

Moved from Leucospis. Range-based ID. See comments by Ross Hill on various other photos in the guide.

… Aaron Hunt, 29 November, 2016 - 3:53pm

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Moved

Moved from Leucospidae.

… John S. Ascher, 15 March, 2010 - 11:01am

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Yep

It's a Leucospid, so family Leucospidae.
Probably a Leucospis sp., but I don't know what species.
Greetings

… Gerard Pennards, 24 July, 2008 - 4:55am

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ID

Thanks for your ID, Gerard. It has been previously asserted on Bugguide that affinisis is the only species of Leucospis that occurs in the northeast plus it matches images identified as L. affinis from the northeast.
Apparently the same species can look very different on the West Coast.

… Charles S. Matson, 24 July, 2008 - 9:15am

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On the West Coast we have two

On the West Coast we have two forms of the L. affinis and I've caught them both in the same area of chaparral. One is large, robust, and predominantly yellow and the other is smaller and mostly black, with thin yellow lines. Its always been a puzzle to me how these two can be the same thing?

… Dennis Haines, 24 July, 2008 - 11:24am

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California dreaming

I've only seen them on BugGuide, but the large, mostly yellow West Coast L. affinis are really splendid wasps. I hope to see one there sometime.

… Charles S. Matson, 24 July, 2008 - 11:51am

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