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Cuckoo wasp

Chrysididae (family)

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Description:

Body metallic blue-green, small reddish part at the end. Coarse sculpturing (many pits on the surface).

Notes:

I found this little fella lying on the stairs. Not been able to ID it down to species yet :/

1 Species ID Suggestions

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Christiane
Christiane 12 years ago
Cuckoo Wasp
Cuckoo wasp


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6 Comments

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Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

Love its sari.

PhulmaniDaimaryBaro
PhulmaniDaimaryBaro 12 years ago

Thank You all :)

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Christiane
Christiane 12 years ago

I have moved this spotting to Arthropods for you :-) Amazing colors!!

Michelle Parish
Michelle Parish 12 years ago

Beautiful colors, very interesting for a wasp!

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LauraMaria
LauraMaria 13 years ago

Gorgeous! My best guess is some kind of cuckoo wasp... the only cuckoo wasp that I actually know by name is the ruby-tailed wasp, but this doesn't enough red in the abdomen to be one. So some other kind I would bet!

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Isabela
Isabela 13 years ago

Incredible colours!

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PhulmaniDaimaryBaro
Spotted by
PhulmaniDaimaryBaro

Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Spotted on Mar 16, 2011
Submitted on Apr 22, 2011

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