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Black Ichneumonid with yellow legs #2 - Pimpla pedalis - female

Black Ichneumonid with yellow legs #2 - Pimpla pedalis - Female
Scotchtown, south end of Grand Lake, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
July 5, 2007
Found on drop sheet while we were collecting gypsy moth larvae in a shoreline oak stand.

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Black Ichneumonid with yellow legs #2 - Pimpla pedalis - female Black Ichneumonid with yellow legs #2 - Pimpla pedalis - female

Moved
Moved from Pimpla instigator.

Pimpla instigator (=P. hypocondriaca) - female
This member of Pimplini tribe (Pimplinae subfamily, was maybe introduced from Western Palaearctic just like Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar).

 
Not Established
Pimpla rufipes (=hypochondriaca, =instigator) was released in the early 1900s against the gypsy moth in New England but was never established.

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