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Northern Paper Wasp with Strepsipterans? - Xenos peckii - female

Northern Paper Wasp with Strepsipterans? - Xenos peckii - Female
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
October 14, 2008
Close-up of the abdomen.

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Northern Paper Wasp with Strepsipterans? - Xenos peckii - female Northern Paper Wasp with Strepsipterans? - Xenos peckii - female

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Xenos
Xenos parasitizes Polistes waps of the Vespidae family.

 
Just wondering...
I initially believed these projections to be the heads of females, but might they really be pupae?

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Xenos
oops.

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