[Pollinator] [beemonitoring] Identify Wasp to genus?

[Kit Prendergast]

Perhaps it is related to this species?
http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/19701
This member of the citizen science website Bowerbird, Graeme Cocks, seems
to be quite an expert on wasps in Australia; I don't know him personally or
have his contacts however.
Cheers,
Kit

On 29 December 2016 at 13:41, Doug Yanega dyanega at ucr.edu [beemonitoring] <
beemonitoring-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 12/28/16 8:32 PM, Peter Bernhardt bernhap2 at slu.edu [beemonitoring]
> wrote:
>
>
> Rudie Kuiter, of Victoria Australia, is continuing his impressive work on
> the pollinators of native orchids.  Prasophyllum (leek orchids) secrete
> nectar  and are often visited by wasps in several families.  Would anyone
> be willing to look at the attached photo series, confirm them as shots of
> ichneumonids and be willing to slap a genus name on them?
>
> Ichneumonids have been associated with nectar-secreting orchids in the
> past but not in Australia.  In the northern hemisphere they are known to
> pollinate Listera (now Neottia) in Europe and Listera or Neottia ovata in
> California. A colleague in China has found a Herminium species pollinated
> by ichneumonids at >3000 in the Yunnan Himalayas.
>
>
> It is an ichneumonid (misspelled as "ichneumoniid" in the accompanying
> text), but I don't believe it's an ophionine (misspelled as "ophinine" in
> the accompanying text), but instead something like a campoplegine. You'd
> need to get a good clear shot of the wing venation into the hands of an
> ichneumon specialist.
>
> If you can get a good venation image to me, I can pass it along to some
> such specialists.
>
> Peace,
>
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