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Catepillar confirmation - is this a Lettered Sphinx?? - Cotesia

Catepillar confirmation - is this a Lettered Sphinx?? - Cotesia
Lake Park, Becker County, Minnesota, USA
August 10, 2018
I am sending this in to an expert for identification of the wasps, but need confirmation on the host. I think it is a Deidamia inscriptum - Lettered Sphinx Moth based on the lateral stripe, but not 100% sure that I am not missing another similar species (I don't know my cats well).

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wasps
Thanks! I'm sending the wasps in to the Whitfield Lab in Illinois.

 
Cotesia…
If this is, indeed, a lettered sphinx, then the parasites would likely be those of Cotesia - the host species being originally synonymized from Deidamia inscripta.

See reference here.

I believe your caterpillar ID
I believe your caterpillar ID is correct.

 
thanks!
thanks!

Wasps…
Microgastrinae cocoons.

See reference here.

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