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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) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Agathidinae » Earinini » Earinus
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wasp - Earinus - male
Copyright © 2012 Kim Fleming

wasp - Earinus - Male
Donalds, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
March 7, 2012
Pimplinae?
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Contributed by Kim Fleming on 7 March, 2012 - 3:45pm
Last updated 17 February, 2024 - 8:30pm

Moved
Moved from Earinus limitaris.

Revision of species by Sharkey (2022)(1) has split the older treatment of E. limitaris into 4 species (plus additional undescribed) that now require seeing the punctation of the face to key species.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 17 February, 2024 - 8:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
ID confirmed by Dr. Sharkey.

I should not have spelled the name limitarius.

Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Carlson, 7 March, 2012 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

Braconidae
Note the bluish hew of the eye. To me, that suggests Agathidinae. Others have very recently submitted photos of females of Earinus limitarius, and this photo agrees well with that of the male of E. limitarius photographed and collected Tom Murray:
… Bob Carlson, 7 March, 2012 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
it's so great to learn here, distinctions like the blue eye.. thank you!
… Kim Fleming, 7 March, 2012 - 5:36pm login or register to post comments

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