Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ichneumon wasp ID
Posted by LordV on 17-10-2006 19:20
#1
Any ideas on what I assume is an Ichneumon wasp (odd ovipositor)
Taken todaay South coast UK about 14mm body length (not inc ovipositor).
Thanks
Brian V.
Edited by LordV on 18-10-2006 05:16
Posted by ChrisR on 17-10-2006 22:56
#2
Looks a bit pimpline to me ... but i wouldn't like to say which genus without a specimen :)
Posted by LordV on 18-10-2006 06:42
#3
Thanks Chris :)
Brian V.
Posted by Robert Nash on 18-10-2006 08:50
#4
Chris and Brian
Pimpla cf.
instigator. A very common species now out and about in great numbers in Ireland. Perhaps Camille will confirm.
Slainte (Cheers) Robert
Edited by Robert Nash on 18-10-2006 08:51
Posted by ChrisR on 18-10-2006 09:40
#5
Hmm, I thought about
Pimpla but wasn't confident ... the (apparently) down-curved tip to the ovipositor suggested another genus like
Apechthis.
Posted by cthirion on 18-10-2006 18:55
#6
I do not work this subfamily, but it seems to to me that it is Apechthis!
;)
Posted by LordV on 19-10-2006 07:43
#7
Thanks all :)
cthirion & Chris - does look very similar to this pic of Apechthis compunctor including the ridged abdomen.
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P3/P38853.php.
Brian V.
Edited by LordV on 19-10-2006 09:11
Posted by Robert Nash on 19-10-2006 10:13
#8
Sorry folks:(.
Apechthis it seems to be.
Robert
Posted by cthirion on 19-10-2006 11:00
#9
I am wary more and more of the sites with many photographs, often I find errors in the little which I know! :(?
?Of the same Wikip?dia is criticized more and more and a new version for the definitions controlled by experts will leave soon!:o?
?It is necessary to work in team, it is the only means of doing good work like here! :D?
?Experts questioned for determinations forget to deepen judging that it is of secondary importance..... many taken again errors persist from one site to another! ?:(