Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Braconids and Ichneumons (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumon Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Rhyssinae » Giant Ichneumons (Megarhyssa)
Photo#281282
Megarhyssa - Megarhyssa - male
Copyright © 2009 Roland Barth

Megarhyssa - Megarhyssa - Male
Fontenelle Forest, Sarpy County, Nebraska, USA
May 29, 2009
Can we ID to species? Looks like some of the M. macrusus images.
The first image was taken in natural light, the others with flash. In sun tail was bright red.

Images of this individual: tag all
Megarhyssa - Megarhyssa - male Megarhissa - Megarhyssa - male Megarhyssa - Megarhyssa - male
Contributed by Roland Barth on 29 May, 2009 - 2:15pm
Last updated 12 June, 2009 - 9:48am

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2009 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by Iowa State University Entomology.