Identification
Parnopes is among the few chrysidids that frequent flowers (most would rather hang out around aphid colonies for the honeydew) and among the most common genera in arid habitats. The body is more elongated, with the "tire-like" appearance of the abdomen. Most other cuckoo wasps don't have such exaggerated abdominal segmentation, and the segments are broader and fewer. Parnopes also has a very long "tongue". —Eric Eaton
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Beatriz Moisset on 4 August, 2005 - 9:50pm
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