Working on describing this couple of new Ctenichneumon species from the Huachuca Mountains in #Arizona. Too bad they are both singletons! Hopefully someone can find the males eventually.

#insect #newspecies #entomology #nature #photography #ichneumonidae #trackerwasp #wasp

A beautiful undescribed Melanichneumon species from southern #Utah collected by VFITs in a gamble oak thicket. Ichneumonids are still massively undercollected in southern Utah. More undescribed species can be seen at ichsofna.org

#ichneumonidae
#newspecies
#undescribedspecies
#trackerwasp

Cratichneumon permagnus (= very great Cratichneumon). A new species described by Claridge et al. last fall along with 10 other Cratichneumon species from Arizona.

#ichneumonidae
#ichneumoninae
#trackerwasp
#Arizona
#newspecies