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Parasitic wasp
Smoggycb	#1 Posted on 07-12-2009 11:06
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Sorry for the poor quality of the images. From a house on the south coast of England in early november (found dead)


Smoggycb	#2 Posted on 07-12-2009 11:07
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	and a second image


Gerard Pennards	#3 Posted on 07-12-2009 11:08
Member Location: Posts: 1914 Joined: 07.06.04	Ichneumonidae, looks like subfamily Pimplinae.. Greetings Greetings, Gerard Pennards


Smoggycb	#4 Posted on 07-12-2009 14:30
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Thanks Gerard


ChrisR	#5 Posted on 07-12-2009 16:49
Administrator Location: Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	If you send it over I can give you a name for it - the RES pimpline key is pretty easy to use Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


cthirion	#6 Posted on 07-12-2009 18:04
Member Location: Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04	There are optimists ! cthirion


ChrisR	#7 Posted on 07-12-2009 19:46
Administrator Location: Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	LOL, the key to British Pimplinae is very good - I have used it many times here and Mark Shaw has recently released updates to it... so I have reasonable confidence for UK material Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


cthirion	#8 Posted on 07-12-2009 22:28
Member Location: Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04	Yes....for UK material! cthirion


Smoggycb	#9 Posted on 08-12-2009 10:25
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Thanks for your contributions. Chris, if I think on I will bring it to the tachinid workshop in February.


Pierre-Nicolas Libert	#10 Posted on 08-12-2009 10:33
Member Location: Posts: 82 Joined: 31.08.04	What is the size? Pierre-Nicolas


Smoggycb	#11 Posted on 08-12-2009 11:20
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	12mm from head to tip of abdomen, with another 3mm of ovipositor.


Pierre-Nicolas Libert	#12 Posted on 08-12-2009 14:33
Member Location: Posts: 82 Joined: 31.08.04	Before confirmation, could you make a picture of Tibia III or tell me if is it completely red. Pierre-Nicolas


Smoggycb	#13 Posted on 08-12-2009 14:59
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Tibia III is completely red Pierre.


Pierre-Nicolas Libert	#14 Posted on 08-12-2009 16:09
Member Location: Posts: 82 Joined: 31.08.04	Then it is at 99,9% Pimpla rufipes. Pierre-Nicolas


Smoggycb	#15 Posted on 08-12-2009 16:12
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Excellent! Thanks Pierre-Nicolas, more than I could have reasonably hoped for.


ChrisR	#16 Posted on 08-12-2009 18:43
Administrator Location: Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	That's a nice ID - can you bring it to the workshop anyway Chris? I'd like to run it through the British key and just make sure I get it out to that species - I don't think I have seen P.rufipes yet Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


Smoggycb	#17 Posted on 08-12-2009 19:30
Member Location: Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	OK Chris, will do.


Pierre-Nicolas Libert	#18 Posted on 08-12-2009 23:30
Member Location: Posts: 82 Joined: 31.08.04	I'd like to run it through the British key In the British key, you'll find it under Pimpla hypochondriaca (now synonym of rufipes) I don't think I have seen P.rufipes yet You should it is one of the most common... good night Pierre-Nicolas


ChrisR	#19 Posted on 08-12-2009 23:52
Administrator Location: Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	Ahh, P.hypochondriaca sounds much more familiar I probably just need to apply Marsh Shaw's updates to my copy and add-in some margin notes Thanks for the clarification. Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.

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