Which Ichneumon please? (1 Viewer)

[Rockwolf]

Taken last August in Shropshire.
Can anyone help with species please? (Or point me to a good guide? I've searched the internet but to no avail so far!)

Thanks ever so!

 

[socksitis]

In Complete British Insects by Michael Chinery there is something very similar:
Ichneumon Stramentarius.
I have looked for a specialist Ichneumon book but cannot find anything.
Hope it helps

 

[Rockwolf]

Thank you very much for your help! Excellent!

 

[Ficedula]

My copy of Chinery does not have Ichneumon stramentarius (Chinery is about as complete as north Korea is democratic!).

a quick google search on this name reveals a range of species and genera, none of them like your specimen. The nearest i have in my collection i have named Eupalamus wesmaeli but it differs from yours in some minor respects so is unlikely to be the same species.

The only way to name Ichneumonidae is to take specimens and key them, do this for hundreds of specimens and you will start to get somewhere.

 

[Rockwolf]

My copy of Chinery does not have Ichneumon stramentarius (Chinery is about as complete as north Korea is democratic!).

a quick google search on this name reveals a range of species and genera, none of them like your specimen. The nearest i have in my collection i have named Eupalamus wesmaeli but it differs from yours in some minor respects so is unlikely to be the same species.

The only way to name Ichneumonidae is to take specimens and key them, do this for hundreds of specimens and you will start to get somewhere.

Thank you Ficedula! Appreciate your help. It's very frustrating that the parasitica are so poorly covered..... if only I had time!