Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ichneumon wasp ID

Posted by LordV on 17-10-2006 20:20
#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.

static.flickr.com/97/272413203_f6e75efdb5.jpg

Edited by LordV on 18-10-2006 06:16

Posted by ChrisR on 17-10-2006 23:56
#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 07:42
#3

Thanks Chris :)
Brian V.

Posted by Robert Nash on 18-10-2006 09:50
#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 09:51

Posted by ChrisR on 18-10-2006 10:40
#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 19:55
#6

I do not work this subfamily, but it seems to to me that it is Apechthis!
;)

Posted by LordV on 19-10-2006 08:43
#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 10:11

Posted by Robert Nash on 19-10-2006 11:13
#8

Sorry folks:(. Apechthis it seems to be.
Robert

Posted by cthirion on 19-10-2006 12:00
#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! ?:(