BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) ANIMALIA (animals) EUMETAZOA (metazoans) BILATERIA (bilaterally symmetrical animals) PROTOSTOMIA (protostomes) ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) ARTHROPODA (arthropods) HEXAPODA (hexapods) INSECTA (insects) PTERYGOTA (winged insects) Neoptera (an infraclass of insects) Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally) HYMENOPTERA (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps) APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids) Parasitica (parasitoid wasps) ICHNEUMONOIDEA (a superfamily of parasitic wasps) ICHNEUMONIDAE (a family of ichneumon wasps) Record Ichneumonidae is also a member of: Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) ICHNEUMONIDAE (a family of ichneumon wasps) Date: 24 February 1981 OS grid ref: SU17 Lat/Lon: 51° 30' N, 1° 40' W Location: Vice County: North Wiltshire, VC7, England Stage or state: Larva Record Summary: Larva, on spider, indoors Associated organism: on live opisthosoma of Araneae Identification Notes: "Ambush" parasite: the larva waits until the spider has grown to a certain size then consumes it in one day. Images standard photographs and close-ups << Click on a thumbnail

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