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Sorry for the poor quality of the images. From a house on the south coast of England in early november (found dead)

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and a second image

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Ichneumonidae, looks like subfamily Pimplinae..
Greetings

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Thanks Gerard

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If you send it over I can give you a name for it - the RES pimpline key is pretty easy to use

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There are optimists !

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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

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Yes....for UK material!

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Thanks for your contributions. Chris, if I think on I will bring it to the tachinid workshop in February.

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What is the size?

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12mm from head to tip of abdomen, with another 3mm of ovipositor.

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Before confirmation, could you make a picture of Tibia III or tell me if is it completely red.

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Tibia III is completely red Pierre.

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Then it is at 99,9% Pimpla rufipes.

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Excellent! Thanks Pierre-Nicolas, more than I could have reasonably hoped for.

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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

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OK Chris, will do.

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In the British key, you'll find it under Pimpla hypochondriaca (now synonym of rufipes)


You should it is one of the most common...

good night

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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.