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Braconid Wasp - Atanycolus - female
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Braconid Wasp - Atanycolus - Female
Lakewood, Wisconsin, USA
June 19, 2006
It had a reddish-orange abdomen...and a long tail

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Contributed by Jim Farrell on 20 June, 2006 - 1:24pm
Last updated 15 December, 2009 - 3:35pm

Atanycolus sp. -- Paul Marsh det.
Moved from Braconid Wasps.
… v belov, 15 December, 2009 - 3:35pm

Could this?
Be a braconid instead of inch.?
… gehan gehale, 20 June, 2006 - 9:23pm

 
Yes.
It is indeed a female braconid, just one of the larger ones that are parasites of woodboring beetle larvae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 21 June, 2006 - 12:57pm

Looks like a female
Ichneumon wasp.
… Adalbert Goertz, 20 June, 2006 - 5:21pm

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