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Basil Crowley	#1 Posted on 24-08-2010 00:00
Member Location: Posts: 58 Joined: 21.04.09	Any ideas as to the id of this ichneumonid? Not particularly large: 10-15mm size range. Note orangy-brown front tibia and tarsi. Other legs mostly black, but with some brown. Front 2/3 of abdomen is red. Photographed indoors, 19 June 2010, Oxfordshire, England


ChrisR	#2 Posted on 24-08-2010 00:05
Administrator Location: Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	With any luck Camille will be able to give us an idea but if not then you could try it on the HymIS forum There are very many similar (nearly identical) species so it is a difficult group Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


Basil Crowley	#3 Posted on 24-08-2010 00:27
Member Location: Posts: 58 Joined: 21.04.09	Yeah, I hope so. I have found plenty of superficially similar species that it is clearly not. Thanks for the tip about HymIS.


cthirion	#4 Posted on 24-08-2010 09:46
Member Location: Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04	Cryptinae! Afflicted! cthirion


ChrisR	#5 Posted on 24-08-2010 10:39
Administrator Location: Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	Yeah, if it is Cryptinae then it seems you are onto a looser there Basil - too many species & not enough keys, let alone libraries of identified photos etc. Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


Basil Crowley	#6 Posted on 27-08-2010 22:47
Member Location: Posts: 58 Joined: 21.04.09	Well, if taxonomy won't give it a name, perhaps I will: It's a YANUIT (Yet Another Nameless Unidentifiable Ichneumon Thing). Shucks. Why did I even bother to photograph it?


ChrisR	#7 Posted on 27-08-2010 23:24
Administrator Location: Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	Basil Crowley wrote: Shucks. Why did I even bother to photograph it? Don't worry - I have said almost exactly the same thing many times! Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.