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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-475--548038887 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jim, They are a fabulous beast. It is certainly Pelecinus polyturator, since this is a mono-specific genus. Males are occasionally found in southern latitudes, but in the Maritimes it is an exclusively parthenogenically-reproducing female species. Cheers, Chris On 7-Aug-11, at 8:09 PM, James W. Wolford wrote: > AUGUST 5 & 6, 2011 - Pat & I drove to Lunenburg for 2 of the 3.5-day > Folk Harbour Festival. > > On our first afternoon there, on the lawn behind the Lincoln House > ex-B&B, we found a very-long-bodied female Pelecinidae black wasp > that hunts and preys on grubs/larvae of May beetles or June beetles > under the sod. Very probably this was a Pelecinus polyturator , > which exists as nearly all females in most or all areas of > occurrence. The species has a wide range in North America and > apparently exists under several different names. Since they are > nearly all females, the eggs they lay, one at a time on each beetle > larva found, must be parthenogenic, i.e. not needing fertilization, > and probably formed by a modified form of meiosis. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada * Research Associate: Nova Scotia Museum | http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/research-asfr.htm * Review Editor: The Coleopterists Bulletin | http://www.coleopsoc.org/ * Subject Editor: ZooKeys | http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index * Review Editor: Zootaxa | http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/taxa/Coleoptera.html * Associate Editor: Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society | http://www.acadianes.org/journal.html * Editor: Atlantic Canada Coleoptera | http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/index.html * Editor: Bugguide, Coleoptera http://bugguide.net Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war- horse at the sound of a trumpet. - Charles Darwin --Apple-Mail-475--548038887 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jim,<div><br></div><div>They = are a fabulous beast. It is certainly <i>Pelecinus polyturator</i>, = since this is a mono-specific genus. Males are occasionally found in = southern latitudes, but in the Maritimes it is an exclusively <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; ">parthenogenically-reproducing female = species.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>= Chris</div><div><br><div><div>On 7-Aug-11, at 8:09 PM, James W. Wolford = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: = space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>AUGUST = 5 & 6, 2011</b> - Pat & I drove<b> to Lunenburg</b> for 2 of the = 3.5-day<b> Folk Harbour Festival</b>. </font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">On our = first afternoon there, on the lawn behind the Lincoln House ex-B&B, = we found a <b>very-long-bodied female Pelecinidae black wasp</b> that = hunts and preys on grubs/larvae of May beetles or June beetles under the = sod. Very probably this was a <i>Pelecinus polyturator</i> , which = exists as nearly all females in most or all areas of occurrence. = The species has a wide range in North America and apparently exists = under several different names. Since they are nearly all females, = the eggs they lay, one at a time on each beetle larva found, must be = parthenogenic, i.e. not needing fertilization, and probably formed by a = modified form of meiosis.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</font></div> </div></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit