Comments on: Unknown Hymenopteran from United Kingdom is Ichneumon http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/09/24/unknown-hymenopteran-from-united-kingdom/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kkroeker http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/09/24/unknown-hymenopteran-from-united-kingdom/comment-page-1/#comment-22 kkroeker Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:03:02 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=11410#comment-22 Hello Don’t Mind? Your mystery bug is an ichneumid wasp (order Hymenoptera), probably in the genus Amblyteles. Unfortunately (from the perspective of trying to identify it) the UK is very well stocked with thousands of ichneumon species. That said, your photo looks very much like the A. armatorius pictured at the link below. Sorry, I can't figure out how to hyperlink it. Karl http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uknature.co.uk/A.armatorius.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uknature.co.uk/A.armatorius-info.html&h=400&w=400&sz=53&hl=en&start=13&um=1&usg=__8h33AQEFNyzEymKJY8bD5C4SiSQ=&tbnid=uaoKQw9g1WFo6M:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAmblyteles%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN Karl Hello Don’t Mind?

Your mystery bug is an ichneumid wasp (order Hymenoptera), probably in the genus Amblyteles. Unfortunately (from the perspective of trying to identify it) the UK is very well stocked with thousands of ichneumon species. That said, your photo looks very much like the A. armatorius pictured at the link below. Sorry, I can’t figure out how to hyperlink it.

Karl

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uknature.co.uk/A.armatorius.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uknature.co.uk/A.armatorius-info.html&h=400&w=400&sz=53&hl=en&start=13&um=1&usg=__8h33AQEFNyzEymKJY8bD5C4SiSQ=&tbnid=uaoKQw9g1WFo6M:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAmblyteles%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Karl

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