Forum Entomologi Italiani

Body length 20 mm. Confirmation appreciated.

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"Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet"

- Charles Darwin

Could it be but pay attention to Protichneumon pisorius, that looks very similar

Filippo

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Would any better photo clarify the subject? I'm concerned with those darkened wings...

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"Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet"

- Charles Darwin

Probably one of the best characters to discriminate between the two genera are the longitudinal folds on 2-4 abdominal sternites. Only 2° sternite in Amblyjoppa, often 2°-4° in Protichneumon. Otherwise, as your specimen is a female, look at the ovipositor laterally: hypopygium al least 2/3 as long as the distance from the apex of the ovipositor in Amblyjoppa, hypopygium at most half as long as the distance from its apex to the apex of the ovipositor in Protichneumon (from Perkins, taken up by Valemberg too).

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"Non posso separare il piacere estetico che provo nel vedere una farfalla dal piacere scientifico di sapere che cosa è" (V.Nabokov)