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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) » Pimplinae » Pimplini » Pimpla genus-group » Pimpla » Pimpla marginella
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is this a type of parasitic wasp?? - Pimpla marginella - female
Copyright © 2006 Charles Weber

is this a type of parasitic wasp?? - Pimpla marginella - Female
Plantation, Fort Lauderdale County, Florida, USA
March 20, 2006
This wasp has the same behavior as an ensign wasp, but it cleary is not an ensign wasp, but what struck me the most was its coloring, its eyes and abdomen, just gorgeous!

Thanks for any help
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Contributed by Charles Weber on 21 March, 2006 - 10:52am
Last updated 2 December, 2014 - 4:13pm

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… john and jane balaban, 28 September, 2009 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

Pimpla marginella
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… Bob Carlson, 28 September, 2009 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Wasps.
… john and jane balaban, 29 September, 2006 - 8:35pm login or register to post comments

Re-uploaded
to solve file-size problem
… Chuck Entz, 23 March, 2006 - 7:32am login or register to post comments

Ichneumon wasp.
This is an ichneumon wasp. Perhaps one of our more advanced experts can put it to subfamily. It appears to be investigating a beetle pupa of some sort.
… Eric R. Eaton, 21 March, 2006 - 11:46am login or register to post comments

 
I thought it could have been
I thought it could have been that also, but the funny thing was its behavior, it was doing the "dance" that I have only noticed the ensign wasps to do, I have taken photos of other ichneumon wasps before and they have never showed that behavior, or maybe I just never seen it.

Charles
… Charles Weber, 21 March, 2006 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

 
The pupa looks like Harmonia axyridis
- if I'm right in thinking those forked spines are distinctive to that species.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 21 March, 2006 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

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