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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) » Metopiinae » Colpotrochia » Colpotrochia texana
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Ichneumon Wasp - Colpotrochia texana - male
Copyright © 2011 Robert Lord Zimlich

Ichneumon Wasp - Colpotrochia texana - Male
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
July 24, 2011
Colpotrochia crassipes?
UPDATE: not only a new species for BugGuide, but the only ones posted on BugGuide are from the Zimlich Zone. I see regularly from March - August
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 25 July, 2011 - 7:04am
Last updated 24 December, 2022 - 4:04pm

Moved
The angle of the nervellus of the hindwing appears to be "postfurcal" (with the end that joins vein M+Cu farther from the wing base than the end that joins vein 1A) and it is "vertical" in crassipes. In addition, crassipes has a more northerly range, and texana a more southerly one.

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Thanks ...
for explaining. Eventually, I will have o learn more about them, as I am amassing quite a collection of cool ichies.
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