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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) » Ichneumoninae » Ichneumonini » Trogus Genus Group » Trogus » pennator or vulpinus (Trogus pennator or vulpinus)
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Parasitic wasp - Trogus
Copyright © 2008 Richard Wasson

Parasitic wasp - Trogus
Dunkirk, Maryland, USA
June 26, 2008
Size: 20 mm
This wasp emerge from a Black Swallowtail chrysalis today.
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Contributed by Richard Wasson on 26 June, 2008 - 6:49pm
Last updated 24 June, 2021 - 4:52am

Moved
Moved from Trogus.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 24 June, 2021 - 4:52am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Trogus pennator.

I'm hesitant at this angle as T. vulpinus is identical in coloration, and differences such as the shape of the scutellum aren't easily distinguished at this angle. To complicate matters, both species parasitize Papilio polyxenes.

I've gone ahead and corrected the date based on the post since Richard hasn't been the site for several years.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 24 June, 2021 - 4:12am login or register to post comments

Fix date please
.
… Kyhl Austin, 19 October, 2020 - 5:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Trogus.
… Bob Carlson, 19 December, 2009 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ichneumoninae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 October, 2008 - 10:51pm login or register to post comments

Ichneumon
of some flavor... or at least that's my guess... P:
… Jonas Insinga, 26 June, 2008 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Ichneumon
I believe your right. There must be 10,000 different ichneumon sp. so I will just have to be happy with it being an "Ichneumon".

Thanks for the input.
Richard
… Richard Wasson, 26 June, 2008 - 7:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Wait a sec:-)
With the host chrysalis, and a pretty distinctive wasp, I'd say this is probably in the genus Trogus. Nice work.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 June, 2008 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Trogus ?
It does look like the pictures on this web site of Trogus. I do not know anything about Trogus but will now be motivated to do some research on this species.

Thanks Eric
… Richard Wasson, 28 June, 2008 - 1:20am login or register to post comments

 
Oh, good!
See, I'm just 19 and on top of that I'm still really early in my college career. I can still only positively identify most critters down to family at best, but usually I can do it at least to order, (for example I know a mayfly when i see one, or an Oribatid mite. Can't do much from there though...)

So then Trogus it is! :)
Cool.
… Jonas Insinga, 5 July, 2008 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

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