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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) » Ichneumoninae » Ichneumonini » Amblyteles Genus Group » Setanta » Setanta compta » Setanta compta marginata
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Tiny Wasp-Ichneumon? - Setanta compta - female
Copyright © 2005 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Tiny Wasp-Ichneumon? - Setanta compta - Female
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 24, 2005
Size: under an 1 inch

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Tiny Wasp-Ichneumon? - Setanta compta - female Tiny Wasp-Ichneumon? - Setanta compta - female
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 26 September, 2005 - 12:14pm
Last updated 8 July, 2021 - 2:43am

Moved
Moved from Setanta compta.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 8 July, 2021 - 2:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ichneumoninae.
… Bob Carlson, 14 December, 2009 - 11:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Bob Carlson, 1 October, 2009 - 8:52am login or register to post comments

Ichneumoninae
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… Bob Carlson, 1 October, 2009 - 8:41am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Black and Yellow.
… John R. Maxwell, 19 September, 2008 - 8:51am login or register to post comments

I like those cooperative critters too!
Those are some great pictures! In my most humble of opinions, I'd say that you do indeed have an ichneumid wasp there. The only way to tell the difference between an ichneumid and an braconid wasp is to examine their wings. The ichneumid has 2 recurrent veins and the braconid only has 1. I say ichneumid because we have wasps that look just like that one here in Ontario and they are ichneumids.

Hope this helps!
Cheers
Dave
… David Robertson, 26 September, 2005 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks ^_^ I thought it mig
Thanks ^_^ I thought it might be -I was going by the banded antenae and how active it was. They are hard to photograph-they are so busy. I don't think my photo is quite sharp enough to count veins though. Almost...I'm getting better if the insect co-operates ^_^

Jo
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 26 September, 2005 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

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