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Ichneumon wasp

Gotra sp.

Description:

A parasitic wasp which specialises on lepidopteran and hymenopteran larval hosts.

3 Comments

Beautiful!

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Ichneumonidae. Similar one and you have also some more links. But it is only to illustrate the family!! These Ichneumonidae are quite tricky (if not impossible) to ID from just a picture. Criteria are size, shape, location and extension of stripes, bands and spots, color of the legs (femur and tibia!).
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/214...
Almost the same one, but with different legs:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63901419@N0...

pamsai
Spotted by
pamsai

Uttarakhand, India

Spotted on Apr 22, 2013
Submitted on Apr 26, 2013

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