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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Braconids and Ichneumons (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Agathidinae » Bassus

Genus Bassus

Classification · Identification
Braconid Wasp, Hymenoptera Apocrita Ichneumonoidea Braconidae - Bassus - female insect with red back, black head, legs and wings with long black stinger-looking thing - Bassus insect with red back, black head, legs and wings with long black stinger-looking thing - Bassus orange and black wasp - Bassus orange and black wasp - Bassus orange and black wasp - Bassus Wasp Ovipositing - Bassus - female Wasp Ovipositing - Bassus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconids and Ichneumons)
Family Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)
Subfamily Agathidinae
Genus Bassus
Identification
There are three main Agathidine genera with the "long face" (Agathus, Bassus, and Cremnops). Agathus is almost always entirely black, whereas Bassus and Cremnops are red & black. Cremnops has a carina extending from the lateral margin of the antenna to the lateral ocelli. The carina is absent in Bassus. (Comment by Dr. Mike Sharkey).
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 23 August, 2008 - 6:56pm

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