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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) » Campopleginae
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Hanging egg?
Copyright © 2013 James Reben

Hanging egg?
Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine, USA
July 25, 2013
hanging by a strand from a sapling...
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Contributed by James Reben on 28 July, 2013 - 9:17pm

New One on Me
Here's a video of a hanging cocoon of a Japanese species of Campopleginae that also jumps.
… Bob Carlson, 28 July, 2013 - 9:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
This is certainly the cocoon of a campoplegine, but the pattern doesn't seem to fit the cocoons of Charops annulipes, which are the ones most often found hanging. The pattern of this cocoon reminds me of those of some species of Phobocampe, but I don't know of any thereof that are suspended by a thread. Here is one of those similarly patterned cocoons:



Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Carlson, 28 July, 2013 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
"Consequently campoplegines have adopted a number of ruses to avoid parasites. Some species (e.g. Charops) suspend their cocoon from the plant by a long thread and many also have black and white blotched cocoons that resemble bird droppings."

-Exactly right!
… James Reben, 28 July, 2013 - 9:27pm login or register to post comments

 
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I hadn't finished composing my remark before you commented. The way to know what the genus is, of course, is to rear the cocoon.
… Bob Carlson, 28 July, 2013 - 9:34pm login or register to post comments

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