Once again, to my naked eye this was just another small underbark ro*ve bee*tle that I picked up with my licked fingertip technique. But under magnification it appeared to be another species of female beth*ylid wasp. Wrong again! It's a ponerine ant.

This ant had some dirt obscuring the upper head/neck juncture. I reconstructed the juncture with the clone stamp tool in PhotoShop after looking at other (poorer) images where the dirt was gone. In case it doesn't look quite right, that's why.