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Ichneumon for ID, please
Martin Cooper
Small ichneumon fly - 6 mm from top of head to end of body - found dead in a jar which contained an olive leaf. The leaf was folded over and a pupa had been attached in the fold. The insect must have emereged from the pupa. The olive tree was growing on my patio here in Ipswich, East Suffolk, England (Lat/Lng: 52.061168, 1.159024). Leaf found in July, dead insect found in September. I have never worked with such a small insect before and, as you will see in some of the photos, I made a mess of pinning it.

First the insect viewed from above.
 
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from below
 
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the face
 
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antennae
 
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side view
 
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side detail
 
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and from the other side
 
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close up
 
ChrisR
Nice photos Martin but you really need a specialist forum. Try posting to the 'Hymenopterist's Forum' Facebook group or to the HymIS website. Getting to subfamily is difficult ... to species takes expertise that only a handful of people have. Gavin Broad at the NHM is one such person.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.
 
http://tachinidae.org.uk
Martin Cooper
Thanks Chris, I've applied to join HymIS but haven't heard back from them yet. I'll check out the Facebook group.

Best wishes,
Martin
 
John Carr
Gavin Broad's key to subfamilies may help: http://www.brc.ac...ly_key.pdf.
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31715949@N00
Graeme Cocks
Thanks John. I've grabbed that key as well. I assume it is for UK species, but with that in mind I'll still try it out on Australian ichneumonids. A bit on knowledge should rub off if nothing else.
Graeme
 
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Martin Cooper
Thanks John. I've already tried to use that key but but haven't been able to come to a convincing ID. I've now been accepted to HymIS and started a thread there: http://www.forum....mp;t=11224.

Regards,
Martin
 
Pierre-Nicolas Libert
This is Itoplectis alternans female.
Pierre-Nicolas
 
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