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| buggub |
Posted on 15-05-2012 17:07
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 148 Joined: 13.09.09 |
Hi, location is in Slovenia. Help with id. Many thanks! buggub attached the following image:  [132.94Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 15-05-2012 17:38
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
A great photo but it deserves to be posted in a dedicated Hymenoptera forum, like HymIS, where you will get the real parasitica experts.  The wing venation isn't visible so it might be difficult but the host is probably a good indicator of the genus at least.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 15-05-2012 20:50
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Just had a reply back from Gavin Broad, one of the top ichneumonid specialists at the Natural History Museum in London: Gavin Broad
Certainly is a lovely photo! I think it's Gelis areator. This is a polyphagous cryptine, attacking all sorts of pupae, case-bearing larvae that sort of thing, including psychids. There are some similar Gelis species but G. areator is the most likely. Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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