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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) » Pimplinae » Ephialtini » Dolichomitus genus-group

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Copyright © 2006 Peter Hollinger

Ichneumon Wasp? -

Vershire, Orange County, Vermont, USA
July 4, 2004
Size: ~1cm body

This wasp had a very long ovipositor, almost twice as long as the body. I browsed through Superfamily Ichneumonoidea but got totally confused.

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Contributed by Peter Hollinger on 19 March, 2006 - 9:18pm
Last updated 7 August, 2021 - 11:19pm

Moved

Moved from Pimplinae.

… Jonathan Hoskins, 7 August, 2021 - 11:19pm

Ichneumon wasp - subfamily Pimplinae

Although this subfamily counts fairly less genera than Cryptinae or Ichneumoninae, a further ID is difficult at this level of magnification. or without a good knowledge of local fauna. I would only GUESS tribe Ephialtini (i.e, a genus closely related to Ephialtes).

… Richard Vernier, 20 March, 2006 - 4:29am

Thanks

Thanks, Richard. I would have picked the taxon Black and White with orange legs. (;-)

… Peter Hollinger, 20 March, 2006 - 7:00am

You and everybody else!

I would guess that 99 per cent of entomologists are in the same boat. After Richard Vernier IDed my

as Ichneumonidae: Subfamily Cryptinae, I checked in an online reference and lost count at 380 genera!

Yikes!

… Chuck Entz, 19 March, 2006 - 10:37pm

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