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Wasp - Formica
Copyright © 2009 Bill Johnson

Wasp - Formica
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
June 27, 2009
Any ID for this wasp? Thanks. I've added a second image for wing venation.

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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 29 June, 2009 - 11:12pm
Last updated 25 October, 2019 - 3:37am

Moved
Moved from Formicinae.
… Steven Wang, 25 October, 2019 - 3:37am login or register to post comments

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This is a male Formica. Note the exserted genitalia; this is not of taxonomic value, but is a neat little behavioral thing. Formica males, when excited, wiggle their genital capsules in and out of their metasoma.
… Brendon E. Boudinot, 25 December, 2012 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

Not wasp
This is a male winged reproductive of some kind of ant in the subfamily Formicinae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 30 June, 2009 - 12:16pm login or register to post comments

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