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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) » Campopleginae
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Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid?
Copyright © 2011 Cynthia Bingham Keiser

Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid?
Escondido, California, San Diego County, California, USA
December 1, 2011
Our Lantana flowers are full of these wasps with white spots on the abdomen!

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Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid? - female Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid? - female Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid? - female Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid? Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid? Is this Black, brown and white wasp a Braconid?
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Contributed by Cynthia Bingham Keiser on 1 December, 2011 - 12:50pm
Last updated 31 January, 2014 - 1:51pm

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.
… Bob Carlson, 1 December, 2011 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

White Spots
In this particular image, it looks like the white spots are the membranous areas of the segments showing where the terga are excised at the apices. If that is correct, I expect this critter to be a campoplegine rather than a cremastine. The earlier photos were dated September 10, and one of the photos dated December 1 is a male, whereas all the others are female.
… Bob Carlson, 1 December, 2011 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Hi Bob, I took more pics today hoping to get better one's.
… Cynthia Bingham Keiser, 1 December, 2011 - 1:12pm login or register to post comments

 
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If you wish to know the genus, you could collect specimens and send them to me. I wouldn't know the species in any case, and, like the majority of Nearctic campoplegines, it is probably undescribed.
… Bob Carlson, 1 December, 2011 - 1:21pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks for the offer. I'm more curious than anything but I'd rather enjoy them flying around :) I really appreciate all your effort on helping ID this wasp!
… Cynthia Bingham Keiser, 1 December, 2011 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

 
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Have you seen them oviposit on this plant? If not, have you seen them drinking nectar?
… Bob Carlson, 1 December, 2011 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Hmmmm
I haven't even noticed but will be more observant now. I'll update soon.
… Cynthia Bingham Keiser, 1 December, 2011 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Video
OK, It appears to be ovipositing (is that a word?) You can see my video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2FmKCjMELE
… Cynthia Bingham Keiser, 1 December, 2011 - 4:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Microlep
It can be presumed that there is a microlep of some sort feeding in the flowers. It seems ironic that oviposit and ovipositing aren't in the vocabulary of the BG spell checker, because they are valid words.
… Bob Carlson, 1 December, 2011 - 4:38pm login or register to post comments

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