Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Parasitic wasp (Braconinae, Vipio appellator)

Posted by ebbek on 04-07-2014 21:54
#1

Does anybody know anything about this parasitic wasp with dark wings? From a coastal sandy area in S Sweden today. Thankful for any help.

Regards

Krister

Edited by ebbek on 29-07-2014 21:12

Posted by ChrisR on 05-07-2014 09:28
#2

Looks like a braconid but you'd be much better off posting to a specialist forum like HymIS or the Facebook group "Hymenopterists Forum".

Posted by ebbek on 06-07-2014 19:18
#3

Thanks for respons! I will try one of these forum.

Krister

Posted by HDumas on 07-07-2014 11:28
#4

While asking elsewhere: yes, it's a Braconidae, a female Braconinae.

Posted by ebbek on 26-07-2014 23:29
#5

Thanks for help! When I look in an older swedish key to genera I come to Ipobracon. Could it be correct - and does anybody know a key to this group?

Greetings

Krister

Posted by HDumas on 29-07-2014 12:12
#6

I only know this paper (not in open access):
Quicke, D.L.J., 1987. The Old World genera of braconine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).— J. Nat. Hist. 21:43-157
It seems that Ipobracon is a subgenus of Cyanopterus (see http://www.ichneumonoidea.name/local.php?taxonidLC=90214952).

Your female looks more like Glyptomorpha then like Cyanopterus to me (i.e. first tergite longer and different wing venation), but I'm not at all a specialist.

Posted by ebbek on 29-07-2014 21:12
#7

Thanks a lot for very good information! It helped me to the correct species I hope - which is Vipio appellator. In the swedish key I have the difference between Vipio and Glyptomorpha is that Vipio has a hair brush on each side of clypeus and it also has a polished field on tergit 2. And those characters fits very well to this wasp.

Thanks again HDumas - with greetings from the swedish westcoast!

Krister

Edited by ebbek on 29-07-2014 21:14

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2014 12:28
#8

If anyone is interested in PDF of Quicke, 1987 please let me know.

Posted by ebbek on 30-07-2014 13:35
#9

A great offer! I am very interested and will send you my email:)

Krister

Posted by HDumas on 30-07-2014 21:39
#10

That's very kind of you Dmitry :)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 30-07-2014 22:26
#11

Herewith, I let you know. ;)

Posted by Calilasseia on 31-07-2014 10:25
#12

Dmitry, I'll take you upon that offer too if I may. :)