Netelia virgata
A medium sized largely orange-brown Ichneumon. The legs, antennae and wing stigmas are all pale orangey-brown in colour.
Sometimes drawn to moth traps where its larval food species may occur.
August and September.
Fairly frequent in Britain, though not well recorded.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
24 August 2016
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
24 August 2016
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bees, Wasps, Ants
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hymenoptera
- Family:
- Ichneumonidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 24/08/2016 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 26/09/2017 (Smith, Ann)
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