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small orange wasp with long ovipositor - female

small orange wasp with long ovipositor - Female
Cardinal Marsh, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 12, 2020
Size: ~8 mm
I wonder if this small orange wasp may be in the Family Braconidae? I haven't found many braconid wasps in the field though so I'm not sure.

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small orange wasp with long ovipositor - female small orange wasp with long ovipositor - female small orange wasp with long ovipositor - female small orange wasp with long ovipositor - female

Moved
Moved from Braconid Wasps.

 
Macrocentrinae
Thanks so much for narrowing this braconid wasp down to the subfamily Macrocentrinae, Jonathan. This is the first representative of Macrocentrinae that I've found.

Moved

 
braconid wasp
Thanks for positively identifying this little orange wasp as being in the Braconidae family, Ken! It looked enough like some little ichneumon wasps that I saw that I couldn't be sure myself.

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