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Embolemus? - Embolemus nearcticus
Copyright © 2016 Curt Harden

Embolemus? - Embolemus nearcticus
Mattaponi WMA, Caroline County, Virginia, USA
September 17, 2016
Size: 4.5mm
Collected in a drift-fence pitfall installed in moist floodplain woods beside the muddy Mattaponi river. Collect dates: 18aug-17sep. The preservative was plumbing antifreeze, which is nontoxic but has a sickeningly sweet fruity scent that attracted lots of tiny flies and bark beetles; maybe it drew in this wasp too.
Is this Embolemus?
Contributed by Curt Harden on 15 December, 2016 - 7:28pm
Last updated 25 February, 2017 - 11:58am

Moved
ID confirmed by Kal Ivanov based on specimen, which is deposited in the VMNH collection.
Moved from Embolemus.
… Curt Harden, 25 February, 2017 - 11:58am

Moved
Moved from Cuckoo Wasps and Allies.
… Curt Harden, 25 February, 2017 - 11:58am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 31 December, 2016 - 9:08pm

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Curt Harden, 27 December, 2016 - 6:02pm

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