Image Number: 5430148

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Descriptor:
Larva(e)
Image view:
Dorsal-Lateral
Description:
An orb weaver spider killed by the parasitc larva of an Ichneumon wasp. Believed to be in the Polysphincta genus group.
Image type:
Field

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Image location:
, Weiser State Forest

Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Polysphincta
Subject: Polysphincta spp. Gravenhorst, 1829

Host

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Opisthothelae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Subject: orb weaver
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Image uploaded:
Monday, December 27, 2010
Image last updated:
Friday, January 21, 2011