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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) » Caterpillar Mummy Wasps (Rogadinae) » Common Mummy Wasps (Aleiodes) » apicalis species-group (Aleiodes apicalis species-group) » Aleiodes parasiticus
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Braconid Wasp - Aleiodes parasiticus
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Braconid Wasp - Aleiodes parasiticus
Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 15, 2006
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Contributed by tom murray on 15 September, 2006 - 7:09pm
Last updated 25 May, 2023 - 11:55pm

Moved
Moved from Common Mummy Wasps.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 25 May, 2023 - 11:55pm login or register to post comments

Rogadinae, probably Aleiodes -- Paul Marsh det.
Moved from Braconid Wasps.
… v belov, 17 December, 2009 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
OK, I thinks I know the difference now. The vertical vein at the outer tip of the wing is straight in Braconids, and curved in Ichneumons.
Thanks Richard.
… tom murray, 16 September, 2006 - 7:09am login or register to post comments

(Very elegant) Braconid Wasp
Venation of right forewing is visible, and this is one of a Braconid: the straight vein separating 1st discoidal from 1st submarginal cell leaves no doubt.
… Richard Vernier, 16 September, 2006 - 4:27am login or register to post comments

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