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Photo#1039960
parasitic wasp - Crossocerus impressifrons

parasitic wasp - Crossocerus impressifrons
5 miles southeast of Frontenac, Crawford County, Kansas, USA
February 12, 2015
Size: 5.1 mm
Measurement was taken from the front edge of the pronotum to the tip of the abdomen in dorsal view. Specimen was reared from a rotten tree limb. Limb was collected on 23 Jan. 2015 and wasp emerged on 12 Feb. 2015.

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parasitic wasp - Crossocerus impressifrons parasitic wasp - Crossocerus impressifrons

Moved

Moved
Moved from Crabronina.

Did some looking around.
There are some similar specimens in Crossocerus:



The experts will be able to say for sure.

Moved
Moved from Pimpla marginella.

Not an Ichneumonid. Please take care when placing images into the Guide. Mistakes that aren't caught can be perpetuated as others visit and assume the IDs to be solid. Thanks.

 
parasitic wasp
I am not sure what you mean. I did not submit the photo as an Ichneumonid but simply as a parasitic wasp. If somehow it was placed with the Ichneumonids I do not know how that happened. Can you tell me what might have gone wrong? I am a fairly new contributor to BugGuide and am still learning the ropes.

 
You actually placed it on a species page...
...Pimpla marginella to be exact. You must have clicked the "add image" link on that page, instead of on the ID Request page, or the Hymenoptera page (or wherever you intended to place it).

To be honest, I'm glad it was an accident. Your specimen looks nothing like P. marginella, so I was beginning to question your vision. :)

 
thanks
Thank you for letting me know and for the ID of the specimen. I am not quite sure how I did it but I had looked at a photo of Pimpla earlier. My intent was to place it on the Hymenoptera page and not the ID page since I had read that the best place to place an unknown was with the Hymenoptera as that is where the experts looked.

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