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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 26, 2007

Found this one today. It's size is about 3 cm. It had a wasp-like waist

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 26, 2007

another view;

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 26, 2007

the last one isn't very clear, but that's the only I have of its face;

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 27, 2007

It looks like it may be in the spider wasp family, Pompilidae? There are wasps that look like that in the genera Anoplius and Auplopus, but I can't find any with white markings on the face like your wasp.
And I don't know if any of them get as big as 3cm.

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 27, 2007

Thanks for finding the right direction, Claypa! It is definitely a spider wasp.
I didn't find yet an exact match though and have to leave this open.
There seems to be 75 kinds in 3 subfamilies in Belgium and the Netherlands but only a few are described and mine is not among these.


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JeWevZ Waalwijk, Netherlands Aug 27, 2007

This is definitely not a spider wasp! The number of antennal segments is much too high for a spider wasp (has 12 or 13 antennal segments). It is a member of the family Ichneumonidae.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 27, 2007

An Ichneumon wasp would have been my guess too, but there are something like 70,000 of those and many don't have a species name. Unless it's a very common one you may have trouble identifying it.

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 28, 2007

Thank you JeWevz and Wallaby!

I've gone through many sites of the Ichneumon wasp , found many look-a-likes, but no exact match. So that one will have to stay unresolved.

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