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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) » Ichneumoninae » Ichneumonini » Callajoppa Genus Group » Tmetogaster » Tmetogaster nubilipennis
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Beautiful bug found in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia - Tmetogaster nubilipennis - female
Copyright © 2011 VanessaRobin

Beautiful bug found in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia - Tmetogaster nubilipennis - Female
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA
June 25, 2011
Size: ~size of a quarter
Saw this beautiful insect while hiking in the Shenandoah National Park - almost sat on it! Am wondering what kind of bug it is. Is it related to the wasp family? Thanks!

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Beautiful bug found in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia - Tmetogaster nubilipennis - female Beautiful bug found in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia - Tmetogaster nubilipennis - female
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Contributed by VanessaRobin on 30 June, 2011 - 8:42am
Last updated 30 June, 2011 - 2:03pm

Moved
Thanks to Ilona for digging out Yurika's image, else I would just have been scratching my head about this pair as I had for Yurika's. In these new images, the prominence of the scutellum told me to look through the Callajoppa group for a species with a banded flagellum and a bicolored metasoma, and the only one is the present species (flagellum banded in female only). This species isn't very common in collections, so it is really nice to have these photos in BG.

Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Bob Carlson, 30 June, 2011 - 2:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you for the information
Thank you for the information!
… VanessaRobin, 30 June, 2011 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Thanks to you both! Apprecia
Thanks to you both! Appreciate it!
… VanessaRobin, 30 June, 2011 - 11:45am login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.

I'll bet Ilona's right. Let's see what Dr. Carlson has to say.

Welcome to BugGuide!
… Ken Wolgemuth, 30 June, 2011 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

wasp
Just a guess but I think it resembles this one -- Ichneumon Wasp.
… Ilona L., 30 June, 2011 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

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