Glypta mensurator/nigrotrochanterator, (a pair of often indistinguishable banchine ichneumons)


11 Aug 2023 at OSGR: SU01 in South Wilts, England

Record SummaryFemale, swept off flowering Common Knapweed
Found asFemale imago
Date11 August 2023
Capture methodswept
Associated organismCentaurea nigra s.l.
OS grid refOSGR: SU01
Lat/Lon50° 60’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice CountySouth Wilts, VC no: 8
CountryEngland
Voucher11 Aug 2023[S]
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Notes:

Body length: 8.0mm, ovipositor length: 10.8; wing length: 5.9; flagellomeres: 30+29.

T2 L/B: 1.65; ovipositor/body length: 1.35

Interocellar distance greated than occellus to occipital carina.

Hind claws pectinate.

T1 narrowly, and T2-3 broadly reddish, on hind margin.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

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