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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 » Ichneumon » Ichneumon feralis

Species Ichneumon feralis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Stopping for a drink - Ichneumon feralis - female

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 Ichneumoninae

Tribe Ichneumonini

Genus Ichneumon

Species feralis (Ichneumon feralis)

Explanation of Names

Author: Cresson, 1867

Identification

Scutellum white, abdomen with complete white band on T2 and white anal mark on T5-7, hind tarsi reddish-brown. Most similar-looking relatives lack the pale marks on metasomal tergites 5, 6, and 7. See comment by Bob Carlson

here.

Range

Alberta to Labrador and part of Northeast USA, presumably limited by the range of spruce trees in which its host lives.

Remarks

Believed to be a parasitoid of Hepialus mustelinus(1), now treated as a synonym of Korscheltellus gracilis(2).

See Also

Cratichneumon sublatus- head and thorax with sparse white markings (including inner orbits), abdomen entirely black; hind coxae without scopa.

Cratichneumon viator acerbus - head and thorax entirely black, with no white markings, abdomen entirely black; scopa present on hind coxae

Ctenichneumon minor - scutellum white, fore tibae entirely white, female with white annulus extensive and basal segments with disconnected white marks, abdomen entirely black

Coelichneumon deliratorius cinctitarsis - scutellum white, abdomen with white anal mark on T7

-no photo-

Ichneumon calitergus - scutellum white, abdomen with complete white bands on T1-3 and white anal mark on T6-7

Ichneumon eurypus - scutellum white, abdomen with white lateral marks on T1, complete white band on T2, and white anal mark on T6-7

Ichneumon feriens - scutellum white, abdomen with white band on T2 and white anal mark on T6-7

-no photo-

Ichneumon homorus - scutellum white, abdomen with interrupted white band on T2 and white anal mark on T6-7

-no photo-

Ichneumon microferiens - scutellum white, abdomen with complete or interrupted white band on T2 and white anal mark on T6-7, hind tarsi reddish

-no photo-

Ichneumon polargus - scutellum white, abdomen with complete white bands on T2-3 or T2-4 and white anal mark on T5-7, hind tarsi reddish-brown

-no photo-

Ichneumon unicinctus - scutellum white, abdomen with white lateral marks on T1, complete white band on T2, and white anal mark on T5-7

Works Cited

1.	Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae

2.	Conifer Swift Moth

Contributed by Bob Carlson on 4 July, 2010 - 3:31pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, PaleoJon
Last updated 31 July, 2023 - 5:10pm

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