Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A black hymenoptera

Posted by lweit on 12-12-2006 22:08
#1

Hello

Can you help me to ID this hymenoptera with black abdomen and legs redish and black. Photo taken in NE of France, near Metz

Thank you
Louis

Posted by Gerard Pennards on 26-12-2006 16:27
#2

Hello Louis,
This is for sure an Ichneumonid, and maybe something in the genus Pimpla.
But the last is just a guess, because this is a notorious difficult group of insects to identify, especially from a picture.
Greetings,

Posted by lweit on 26-12-2006 21:41
#3

Thank you Gerard

Louis