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Ichneumonid from goldenrod stem gall - Glypta - male

Ichneumonid from goldenrod stem gall - Glypta - Male
Sunderland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
March 24, 2012
Size: 8.3 mm
Ephialtini? I'm pretty sure the host is Epiblema scudderiana, rather than Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis. Emerged 3/23/12 from a gall collected the day before. I can save the specimen if necessary.

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Ichneumonid from goldenrod stem gall - Glypta - male Ichneumonid from goldenrod stem gall - Glypta - male Ichneumonid from goldenrod stem gall - Glypta - male

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.

Possiblities
It looks like it could be Scambus, but it isn't S. pterophori, which is the only species of Scambus that has been recorded from Epiblema scudderiana. The photograph, however, doesn't permit me to eliminate Glypta as a possiblity because the wings partly obscure the surface of the metasoma, which, in Glypta has oblique grooves on the basal metasomal terga. Four species of Glypta have been recorded from Epiblema scudderiana.

 
Metasoma
There does seem to be an oblique groove on the side--see added shot.

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