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28-03-2010, 03:51 PM
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| | | Tiny orange wingless wasp
Found this little lady(?) at work (near Basildon, Essex) wandering round the office, less than 5mm long 
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28-03-2010, 03:56 PM
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| | | Re: Tiny orange wingless wasp
Afternoon Neil,
Wow - that looks just like an ant of the Myrmica genus! Incredible. Anyway, I'd be pretty happy to call it a Gelis sp. ( note the link between the abdomen and thorax - is pretty distinctive), which is from the Ichneumonidae family.
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28-03-2010, 04:04 PM
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| | | Re: Tiny orange wingless wasp
Thanks Jason, I suspected ichneumon but was clueless other than that.
The simularity with Myrmica was quite apparent, as some of my collegues took some convincing it was in fact a wasp not an ant! The antennae movement was the give away for me. Its funny how after time you pick up on these things  |
30-03-2010, 07:08 PM
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| | | Re: Tiny orange wingless wasp
WOW! Wonder we are hooked on our natural history!
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30-03-2010, 11:15 PM
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| | | Re: Tiny orange wingless wasp
I got a couple of pics of one which looks the same in October last year, I marked it as 2.5mm but it might have been 3mm.
I agree it looks like a Gelis sp. Gelis sp. photo - Tom Murray photos at pbase.com
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30-03-2010, 11:40 PM
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| | | Re: Tiny orange wingless wasp
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Originally Posted by JRsbugs  I agree it looks like a Gelis sp. | Barring inherent uncertainties, as far as I am aware the curved link connecting the thorax to the abdomen's shape is pretty unique. That with the size and wingless ichneumon form is enough to convince me of genus |
31-03-2010, 06:21 AM
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| | | Re: Tiny orange wingless wasp
So is this a wingless female then? Do they oviposit locally? Sorry all the questions, just curious.
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