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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Rhopalosomatidae » Rhopalosoma » Rhopalosoma nearcticum

Species Rhopalosoma nearcticum

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Some kind of wasp - Rhopalosoma nearcticum hymenopteran from Malaise trap - Rhopalosoma nearcticum Ichneumon or braconidae ? - Rhopalosoma nearcticum - male Orange Wasp - Rhopalosoma nearcticum Braconid? - Rhopalosoma nearcticum Ichneumon Wasp? - Rhopalosoma nearcticum - male Ichneumon Wasp? - Rhopalosoma nearcticum - male possible Rhopalosoma nearcticum - Rhopalosoma nearcticum - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Rhopalosomatidae
Genus Rhopalosoma
Species nearcticum (Rhopalosoma nearcticum)
Explanation of Names
Rhopalosoma nearcticum Brues 1943
Range
e. US to so. Brazil(1)
Food
ectoparasitic on crickets of the subfamily Eneopterinae (Orocharis, Hapithus)(1)
Life Cycle
Crespuscular or nocturnal
Remarks
occasionally comes to lights
See Also
very similar to some ichneumonids (Ophioninae), but the abdomen is rounded and not as compressed, and the wing venation is distinctive
Works Cited
1.Systematics of little known parasitic wasps of the family Rhopalosomatidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea)
Guidotti A.E. 1999.
Contributed by Nick Fensler on 16 August, 2006 - 10:14pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 17 August, 2023 - 5:22pm

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