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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Acaenitinae » Arotes » Arotes amoenus
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Black-white banded Ichneumon Wasp, Arotes sp. - Arotes amoenus
Copyright © 2005 Jim McClarin

Black-white banded Ichneumon Wasp, Arotes sp. - Arotes amoenus
Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
June 30, 2004
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 May, 2005 - 4:27am
Last updated 11 January, 2010 - 7:46pm

Moved
Moved from Arotes.
… Bob Carlson, 11 January, 2010 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Bob.
Nice to have the full name :-)
… Jim McClarin, 12 January, 2010 - 6:28am login or register to post comments

looks like
one of the Ichneumon Wasp species. It seems like only a few of them can be keyed out, because there are so many of them.
… tom murray, 4 May, 2005 - 6:06am login or register to post comments

 
Arotes sp.?
I think this one is in the genus Arotes, one of the very few that are relatively easily recognized:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 May, 2005 - 4:19pm login or register to post comments

 
My thanks, Eric. I suppose t
My thanks, Eric. I suppose the extraordinary hind legs are a trait of the genus.
… Jim McClarin, 6 May, 2005 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Good enough for starters, since I know next to nothing about wasps.
… Jim McClarin, 4 May, 2005 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Awesome
This is awesome!
… Brittanie McCormack, 13 May, 2007 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

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