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Short-tailed Ichneumon Wasp, Ophion species - Enicospilus - female
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

Short-tailed Ichneumon Wasp, Ophion species - Enicospilus - Female
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
May 24, 2005
Short-tailed Ichneumon Wasp, Ophion species
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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 25 May, 2009 - 10:33am
Last updated 9 March, 2020 - 4:34pm

Moved
Moved from Ophioninae.
… Rachel Behm, 9 March, 2020 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

Ophioninae...
If you were stung, then this is a female as males do not have a short, sharp ovipositor. Even if you weren't stung, most of the time the "stinger" is not extruded, so it can be difficult to tell males and females in this genus apart. Many wasps in the subfamily Ophioninae are in this genus (Ophion), but assuming they all are would not be correct, so I would leave this at the subfamily level for now.

See reference here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/43468
… Ross Hill, 27 May, 2009 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks for info.
Female makes sense with sting. I think I got confused by the "short-tailed" aspect, thinking Ichneumon without a long tail had to be a male. Thanks for the explanation.
… Andrew Williams, 27 May, 2009 - 5:43pm login or register to post comments

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