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Photo#1914868
Found in Mid-Michigan

Found in Mid-Michigan
DeWitt, Clinton County, Michigan, USA
October 14, 2020
Size: 0.25-0.5"

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This is a parasitic wasp ...
... from the superfamily Ichneumonoidea.

 
Names
What are the common and scientific names?

 
There isn't, IMHO ....
... a "good" common name for the families or superfamilies of parasitic Hymenoptera. For a species that is in, say, the family Ichneumonidae (which is a "scientific" name), the best we can do is to drop the final "ae" and call it an ichneumonid. Same thing for Braconidae - for common usage we would call one of those a braconid. Trouble is when you go "up" one level, to superfamily. In this case, the superfamily "Ichneumonoidea" (which contains only 2 families). Sometimes we get lazy and call a member of that superfamily an ichneumonid, when instead technically we should call it an ichneumonoid. Lately, one group of people have been trying to start using the common name of "Darwin wasps" for the family Ichneumonidae, but they've been met with resistance from some folks (including me). However, lately Darwin's racist ideas have been becoming more widespread, and I suspect that attempts to use that common name may be abandoned.

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