Subject: Butterflies or Moths
Geographic location of the bug: Taiwan
Date: 05/11/2018
Time: 03:53 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Hi, I was wondering if you could help me identify this caterpillar.
How you want your letter signed: Thanks! Libbi
Hi again Libby,
We are greatly troubled as we are nearly certain we have identified a very similarly looking suspended pupa in the past, possibly from Australia, but we cannot recall what it is. We are posting this as unidentified and we hope our readership will assist in the identification.
Update: Ichneumon Pupa
Thanks to a comment from Cesar Crash, he directed us to this BugGuide posting of an Ichneumon pupa from the genus Charops.
This is probably Ichneumonidae, check this on BugGuide:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/556600
But we have a simmilar, but not hanging, that emerged a Braconid on Insetologia:
http://www.insetologia.com.br/2017/09/hiperparasitoide-conura-em-casulo-de.html
I guess this was hiperparasitism.
Thanks Cesar. Now we can better search our own archive.
Hi,
The text is redundant:
“an Ichneumon pupa from the genus of an Ichneumon pupa from the genus Charops.”
🙂
fixed. thanks
Hi,
The text is redundant:
“an Ichneumon pupa from the genus of an Ichneumon pupa from the genus Charops.”
🙂
This is probably Ichneumonidae, check this on BugGuide:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/556600
But we have a simmilar, but not hanging, that emerged a Braconid on Insetologia:
http://www.insetologia.com.br/2017/09/hiperparasitoide-conura-em-casulo-de.html
I guess this was hiperparasitism.