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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) » Cryptinae » Cryptini » Cryptina » Cryptus » Cryptus albitarsis
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Ichneumon - Cryptus albitarsis - male
Copyright © 2007 David Kleiman

Ichneumon - Cryptus albitarsis - Male
Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
September 7, 2007
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Contributed by David Kleiman on 15 September, 2007 - 2:12pm
Last updated 4 January, 2010 - 4:01pm

Moved
Moved from Cryptinae.
… Bob Carlson, 4 January, 2010 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Bob Carlson, 1 October, 2009 - 3:15pm login or register to post comments

One can be forgiven...
First, I am so glad Ray is helping with the ichneumons! Second, you can be forgiven for being duped:-) Insect mimicry can be so convincing and confounding as to make life difficult for anyone unfamiliar with a particular group. I 'still' get fooled in the field now and then, until I get the critter into a jar at least:-) Keep up the great work.
… Eric R. Eaton, 17 September, 2007 - 4:12pm login or register to post comments

Ichneumonidae
Not a Thread-waised wasp. This is definitely an ichneumonid. You can just barely make out the wing venation enough to see that the costal and subcostal veins are fused (i.e. the thick vein margining the wing on the stigma side is not one vein, but two fused ones). I'm just going on gestalt here, but this looks like the subfamily Campopleginae.
… Ray Fisher, 15 September, 2007 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

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