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Tag: Hymenoptera

French Guianan evanioids

ChrisRPosted onDecember 4, 2010May 21, 2012

Today I had a request for some specimens of Evaniidae from Ricardo Kawada, a PhD student and researcher in Sao Paulo. This forced me to…

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Euglossine bees

ChrisRPosted onMarch 13, 2010March 15, 2010

I have just been working through some euglossine bees that I obtained over the years from various sources – French Guiana (myself & Philip Soler)…

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Tropical Pompilidae & Sphecidae

ChrisRPosted onMarch 13, 2010April 5, 2017

Yesterday Colin Vardy got in touch with me to ask if I was still interested to get my old French Guianan pompilids identified. Colin normally…

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Foenomorpha senlura (Cenocoeliinae, Braconidae)

ChrisRPosted onNovember 14, 2009April 26, 2011

I have extracted a few evanoid-like braconids from the recent French Guianan batch and amongst the Cenocoeliinae I found a few of these, which I…

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Apechoneura sp. (Ichneumonidae, Labeninae)

ChrisRPosted onNovember 9, 2009November 21, 2009

Here is another little distraction from my normal interests in the form of a French Guianan ichneumon called Apechoneura of the subfamily Labeninae. Many thanks…

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Capitonius sp. (Braconidae, Cenocoeliinae) – an evanoid ‘mimic’

ChrisRPosted onOctober 30, 2009November 21, 2009

Amongst the evanoid wasps I have found quite a few of these little wasps. At first I thought that they must be evanoids because the…

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Hemistephanus erugatus (Stephanoidea, Stephanidae)

ChrisRPosted onOctober 30, 2009November 21, 2009

Continuing the Hymenoptera theme I have been picking out anything that looks a bit like an evanoid wasp and came across these lovely stephanoids. The…

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An amazing French Guianan chalcid

ChrisRPosted onOctober 30, 2009October 30, 2009

I know it must seem like I have gone over to the dark-side but Hymenoptera aren’t all bad … Jean sent me a few tubes…

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