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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) » Ctenopelmatinae » Mesoleiini
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Banded Antennae
Copyright © 2009 Ashley Bradford

Banded Antennae
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
June 18, 2009
A smallish Hymenoptera, but not too tiny. Is it an ichneumon?

Perhaps Theronia hilaris?
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 22 June, 2009 - 11:43am
Last updated 4 June, 2010 - 4:11pm

Moved
Matching specimens key to Barytarbes, but I would lack confidence in the correctness of that placement until I see specimens of this common species with a species identification that coincides with one of the several described species that Townes referred to this genus in 1970.

Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Bob Carlson, 4 June, 2010 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I'll keep an eye out for more.
… Ashley Bradford, 6 June, 2010 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

Inkling
I have an inkling that this is a species of the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae. Hopefully, I will encounter an identified specimen of the species in the National Collection. If I see an unidentified one instead, keying it to genus might be difficult or impossible because the keys to genera of Ctenopelmatinae that I have tried are almost impossible to use. No groups of ichneumonids are easy, but I find the Ctenopelmatinae especially difficult.
… Bob Carlson, 5 October, 2009 - 2:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the thought.
I've noticed on here that Ichneumonids are difficult to ID - too bad for me, since I seem to encounter a lot.
… Ashley Bradford, 5 October, 2009 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

umm,
i think it might be one. i remember reading that they often have bands on their aentenna. i'm sorry i cant help id it any further than that. There are upwards of 3,3000 ichneumons in North America alone. amazing huh?
… Breanna Lyle, 22 June, 2009 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

 
I thought I remembered reading that, too.
Well, that narrows it down a LITTLE bit! Thanks.
… Ashley Bradford, 22 June, 2009 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

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