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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) » Rhyssinae » Rhyssa » Rhyssa lineolata

Species Rhyssa lineolata

Classification · Identification · Works Cited
A wasp whose stinger is as long as its body - Rhyssa lineolata Giant Ichneumon - Rhyssa lineolata - female Giant Ichneumon - Rhyssa lineolata - female ichneumon wasp - Rhyssa lineolata - female Black and white ichneumon with long ovipositor - Rhyssa lineolata - female 3014042 ich - Rhyssa lineolata Rhyssa lineolata - female Rhyssinae wasp - Rhyssa lineolata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)
Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumonid Wasps)
Subfamily Rhyssinae
Genus Rhyssa
Species lineolata (Rhyssa lineolata)
Identification
Rhyssa lineolata is one of only two rhyssine species in our area with white bands on the antennae. It additionally has a white dorsobasal spot on the hind coxae (the ground color is often orange but may be darker). The metapleuron has a more extensive, square-to-rounded white spot. The other, R. crevieri, lacks a white dorsobasal spot on the hind coxae (the ground color is dark). The spot on the metapleuron is smaller with a narrow extension along the upper margin.(1)
Works Cited
1.Detection and identification of two new native hymenopteran parasitoids associated with the exotic Sirex noctilio
Christopher R. Standley, E. Richard Hoebeke, Dylan Parry, Douglas C. Allen, & Melissa Kay Fierke. 2012. Proceedings- Entomological Society of Washington 114(2):238-249.
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 13 January, 2010 - 5:05pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 4 June, 2021 - 4:05pm

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