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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) » Phygadeuontinae » Phygadeuontini » Gelina » Gelis » Gelis tenellus
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Wasp ID Request - Gelis tenellus - female
Copyright © 2015 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Wasp ID Request - Gelis tenellus - Female
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
June 4, 2015
Observed on Juglans nigra [=incidental?]

When I looked at this on my comp later, I thought: "Ceci n'est pas un Enoclerus!"

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Wasp ID Request - Gelis tenellus - female Wasp ID Request - Gelis tenellus - female
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 4 June, 2015 - 4:10pm
Last updated 30 September, 2020 - 8:40pm

Moved
Moved from Cryptinae.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 30 September, 2020 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 9 July, 2015 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

Cryptinae (female)…
Possibly Phygadeuontini, but definitely not a checkered beetle.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 4 June, 2015 - 4:24pm login or register to post comments

 
At
the time of the shot my thought was Enoclerus. That she is a wasp was a pleasant surprise.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 4 June, 2015 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

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