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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) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Macrocentrinae » Hymenochaonia » Hymenochaonia delicata
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Braconid? - Hymenochaonia delicata - female
Copyright © 2009 Jay Greenberg

Braconid? - Hymenochaonia delicata - Female
Brighton, Monroe County, New York, USA
August 11, 2009
I suspect that this waspy looking creature with very long antennae and ovipositor is a braconid wasp. This is an entirely new and unfamiliar group for me.
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Contributed by Jay Greenberg on 28 August, 2009 - 4:23pm
Last updated 19 October, 2009 - 7:26am

probably Hymenochaonia delicata - Kenneth R. Ahlstrom det.
Moved from Braconid Wasps.
… v belov, 19 October, 2009 - 7:26am login or register to post comments

 
current literature for this species
Changed from Macrocentrus in this:

Revision of the Subfamily Macrocentrinae (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) in America North of Mexico Thomas Say publications in entomology: Monographs. Kenneth Roger Ahlstrom, Entomological Society of America, 2005, Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized Sep 22, 2010. ISBN: 0938522728, 9780938522720 Length 274 p
… David J. Biddinger, 6 April, 2024 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

 
biological control of tree fruit pests
Most of the economic literature is under Macrocentris delicatus and it is an important parasitoid of Oriental fruit moth in both apple and peach in Pennsylvania and on codling moth in apple.

Allen, H. W. 1962. Parasites of the Oriental fruit moth in the eastern United States. U. S. Dept. Agric. Tech. Bull. 1265. 139 p.
… David J. Biddinger, 6 April, 2024 - 8:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Jay Greenberg, 3 September, 2009 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

Yes…
You can clearly see the RS+M wing vein which separates it from the very similar ichneumon wasps.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 2 September, 2009 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

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