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Photo#96728
Ichneumon Wasp - Diplazon laetatorius

Ichneumon Wasp - Diplazon laetatorius
Slayton, Murray County, Minnesota, USA
Size: 5mm
Ichneumon (thanks!). Caught May 2004.

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Ichneumon Wasp - Diplazon laetatorius Braconiid Wasp - Diplazon laetatorius

Moved
Moved from Ichneumon Wasps.

Ichneumonidae
This is definitly an Ichneumonidae. The "horse head" cell is very characteristic.

Why?
Why isn't this an ichneumenon? I'm sure it isn't but how do you differentiate. I know the horse-head cell has something to do with it..
Just curius

 
Woops...
Sorry about that...yeah I was stumped on this, anything in the Ichneumonoidea tend to confuse me beyond belief, but I notice on my notes that I had 2 possibilites from this one, based on images (I know that this is a terrible way to work with these guys, but I've got lucky a couple times). I had down Rogas (Aleiodes) terminalis, in Braconiidae, and Stenobarichneumon pygmaeops, in Ichneumonidae. Actually taking a decent look at it now, I can see the horse-head cell, and I'm looking at an Ichneumonid (I was probably looking more at size...tiny little braconids!) Stenobarichneumon pygmaeops looks pretty darn close, see http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/newslides/025016217xxxapl.jpg, but I'll try (if I get the ambition to look through all that text) to key it out for sure...

 
moving
to Ichneumonidae for now

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