Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ichneumon wasp ID

Posted by LordV on 17-10-2006 19:20
#1
Any ideas on what I assume is an Ichneumon wasp (odd ovipositor)
Taken todaay South coast UK about 14mm body length (not inc ovipositor).
Thanks

Brian V.

static.flickr.com/97/272413203_f6e75efdb5.jpg
Edited by LordV on 18-10-2006 05:16

Posted by ChrisR on 17-10-2006 22:56
#2
Looks a bit pimpline to me ... but i wouldn't like to say which genus without a specimen Smile

Posted by LordV on 18-10-2006 06:42
#3
Thanks Chris Smile
Brian V.

Posted by Robert Nash on 18-10-2006 08:50
#4
Chris and Brian Pimpla cf. instigator. A very common species now out and about in great numbers in Ireland. Perhaps Camille will confirm.
Slainte (Cheers) Robert
Edited by Robert Nash on 18-10-2006 08:51

Posted by ChrisR on 18-10-2006 09:40
#5
Hmm, I thought about Pimpla but wasn't confident ... the (apparently) down-curved tip to the ovipositor suggested another genus like Apechthis.

Posted by cthirion on 18-10-2006 18:55
#6
I do not work this subfamily, but it seems to to me that it is Apechthis!
Wink

Posted by LordV on 19-10-2006 07:43
#7
Thanks all Smile
cthirion & Chris - does look very similar to this pic of Apechthis compunctor including the ridged abdomen.
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P3/P38853.php.
Brian V.
Edited by LordV on 19-10-2006 09:11

Posted by Robert Nash on 19-10-2006 10:13
#8
Sorry folksSad. Apechthis it seems to be.
Robert

Posted by cthirion on 19-10-2006 11:00
#9
I am wary more and more of the sites with many photographs, often I find errors in the little which I know! Sad?

?Of the same Wikip?dia is criticized more and more and a new version for the definitions controlled by experts will leave soon!Shock?

?It is necessary to work in team, it is the only means of doing good work like here! Grin?

?Experts questioned for determinations forget to deepen judging that it is of secondary importance..... many taken again errors persist from one site to another! ?Sad