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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Ibaliid Wasps (Ibaliidae) » Ibalia » Ibalia anceps
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black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female
Copyright © 2007 Robin McLeod

black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - Female
Lucan Conservation Area, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
June 6, 2007
Size: about 15 mm
Head-down on trunk of dead hickory (image rotated 90 degrees). The wasp's abdomen appears laterally flattened.

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black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female
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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 9 June, 2007 - 1:00pm
Last updated 10 June, 2007 - 6:56am

Great find!
These are not commonly seen insects.
… Eric R. Eaton, 11 June, 2007 - 4:06pm login or register to post comments

Thanks, Martin
Moved from Ibalia to species page. Apparently, the only other eastern species (I. leucospoides) has a black head and thorax, and an unmarked dark red abdomen.
… Robin McLeod, 10 June, 2007 - 6:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Martin Hauser, 9 June, 2007 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

Not a sawfly - It is a Ibalia
Not a sawfly - It is a Ibalia (Ibaliidae) - a parasite of Tremex.
Stephan Blank
… Martin Hauser, 9 June, 2007 - 3:50pm login or register to post comments

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