Species Megarhyssa nortoni

Classification

Beautifully colored insect with long tail/stinger-like thing! - Megarhyssa nortoni - female

Giant Ichneumon - Megarhyssa nortoni - male

Megarhyssa Wasp? - Megarhyssa nortoni - female

what kinda hornet is this - Megarhyssa nortoni - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconids and Ichneumons)

Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumon Wasps)

Subfamily Rhyssinae

Genus Megarhyssa (Giant Ichneumons)

Species nortoni (Megarhyssa nortoni)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 21 October, 2006 - 1:15pm

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