Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Ichneumonoidea Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | Subphylum Hexapoda Suborder Apocrita Order Hymenopterans | |
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Similar Hymenopterans, Amblyjoppa proteus, Protichneumon pisorius, Coelichneumon, Diphyus | ||
Amblyjoppa fuscipennis lumek 2
Amblyjoppa fuscipennis is a species of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.
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Amblyjoppa fuscipennis lumek
Subspecies
Description
Amblyjoppa fuscipennis can reach a height of about 16–25 centimetres (6.3–9.8 in). It is a large black wasp with white spots between the eyes, a reddish abdomen, darkened wings and orange legs. The antennae of the males are completely black, while the females show a white band in the middle. These wasps can maily be found in August.
This species looks very similar to Protichneumon pisorius, but in the genus Amblyjoppa there is a longitudinal fold only on 2nd abdominal sternite, while in the genus Protichneumon these abdominal sternites are often present in the 2nd-4th tergites.
Distribution
This species is present in most of Europe (Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; Finland; France; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; former Yugoslavia), in the Near East, in North Africa and in the Oriental ecozone.