Ophion ventricosus Gravenhorst, 1829
(an ichneumon wasp)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesOphion ventricosus (an ichneumon wasp)
GenusOphion (ophion wasps)
SubfamilyOPHIONINAE (ophionine ichneumon wasps)
FamilyICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Ophion ventricosus (an ichneumon wasp) :
1: Ophion ventricosus (an ichneumon wasp)
18 May 2020 OSGR: ST71 50° 50’ N, 2° 20’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
2 males, around fallen wood
Image 1: Male - dorsal view - close-up - silver backgroundImage 2: Male - dorsal view - silver backgroundImage 3: Male - lateral view - silver backgroundImage 4: Male - head and antennal bases - anterior view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 5: Male - head and mesosoma - antero-dorsal view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 6: Male - head and mesosoma - lateral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 7: Male - head and mesosoma - postero-dorsal view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 8: Male - head and mesosoma - ventral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 9: Male - head - anterior view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 10: Male - head - dorsal view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 11: Male - head - lateral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 12: Male - head - postero-dorsal view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 13: Male - head - postero-dorsal view - magnified - silver background (2)Image 14: Male - head - ventral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 15: Male - mesosternum - ventral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 16: Male - propodeum and petiole - lateral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 17: Male - scutellum and propodeum - dorsal view - magnified - silver background

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Vas. Z. 2015 New records of ichneumon wasps in Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia with a key to the Western Palaearctic Xylophrurus species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) Folia Entomologica Hungarica rovartani kozlemenyek Vol 76: 223-240.

Ophion ventricosus (an ichneumon wasp) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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