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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) » Short-tailed Ichneumonid Wasps (Ophioninae) » Simophion » Simophion excarinatus
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Large abundant ichneumonid - Simophion excarinatus
Copyright © 2019 Ken Schneider

Large abundant ichneumonid - Simophion excarinatus
Barstow Community College, San Bernardino County, California, USA
March 17, 2019
Size: ca 20 mm
One of many seen here and elsewhere this morning before sunrise, very abundant.

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Large abundant ichneumonid - Simophion excarinatus Large abundant ichneumonid - Simophion excarinatus
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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 17 March, 2019 - 9:08pm
Last updated 23 September, 2019 - 1:31pm

Moved
Moved from Ophioninae.
… Rachel Behm, 23 September, 2019 - 1:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eremotylus.
… Ken Schneider, 14 August, 2019 - 1:44pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ophioninae.

Thanks!
… Ken Schneider, 19 March, 2019 - 6:59am login or register to post comments

 
Rachel -
should I move this back to subfamily based on the subsequent Simophion observation two days later, or is this still definitely Eremotylus?
… Ken Schneider, 13 August, 2019 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Is this one of the specimens
Is this one of the specimens you sent me? It is probably also Simophion but I would need to see in person
… Rachel Behm, 14 August, 2019 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

 
No -
these were found at the same location two days earlier but not collected. I've moved them back to subfamily to be safe, they may need to stay there...
… Ken Schneider, 14 August, 2019 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

Eremotylus Curved base of
Eremotylus

Curved base of the r-rs vein. great find
… Rachel Behm, 18 March, 2019 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

 
easier to see on the right-ha
easier to see on the right-hand wing
… Rachel Behm, 18 March, 2019 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Ken Schneider, 17 March, 2019 - 10:11pm login or register to post comments

Ophioninae…
Need more wing detail to take this to genus level.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 17 March, 2019 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

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