Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Other insects, spiders, etc.
 Ichneumon for ID, please
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 18:59
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Small ichneumon fly - 6 mm from top of head to end of body - found dead in a jar which contained an olive leaf. The leaf was folded over and a pupa had been attached in the fold. The insect must have emereged from the pupa. The olive tree was growing on my patio here in Ipswich, East Suffolk, England (Lat/Lng: 52.061168, 1.159024). Leaf found in July, dead insect found in September. I have never worked with such a small insect before and, as you will see in some of the photos, I made a mess of pinning it. First the insect viewed from above. Martin Cooper attached the following image:  [134.06Kb] |
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 19:01
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
from below
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 19:02
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
the face
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 19:03
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
antennae
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 19:03
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
side view
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 19:04
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 19:05
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
and from the other side
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 19:06
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
close up
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 09-09-2013 20:54
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Nice photos Martin but you really need a specialist forum. Try posting to the 'Hymenopterist's Forum' Facebook group or to the HymIS website. Getting to subfamily is difficult ... to species takes expertise that only a handful of people have. Gavin Broad at the NHM is one such person.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 09-09-2013 23:11
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Thanks Chris, I've applied to join HymIS but haven't heard back from them yet. I'll check out the Facebook group. Best wishes, Martin |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 10-09-2013 03:45
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 Super Administrator Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 10485 Joined: 22.10.10 |
Gavin Broad's key to subfamilies may help: http://www.brc.ac...ly_key.pdf. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 10-09-2013 04:51
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 Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks John. I've grabbed that key as well. I assume it is for UK species, but with that in mind I'll still try it out on Australian ichneumonids. A bit on knowledge should rub off if nothing else. Graeme |
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 10-09-2013 09:01
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Thanks John. I've already tried to use that key but but haven't been able to come to a convincing ID. I've now been accepted to HymIS and started a thread there: http://www.forum....mp;t=11224. Regards, Martin |
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| Pierre-Nicolas Libert |
Posted on 10-09-2013 15:25
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Member Location: Belgium Posts: 82 Joined: 31.08.04 |
This is Itoplectis alternans female.
Pierre-Nicolas |
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