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Wasp rediscovered in upstate New York after 100 years

By Stacey Shackford

Serguei Triapitsyn The tiny fairyfly Gonatocerus ovicenatus has been found in Geneva after not being seen since its initial discovery by Cornell scientists in 1915.

 

Two entomologists in search of one insect have discovered two others: a tiny wasp that hadn’t been seen in North America in nearly 100 years, and one that has never been recorded here.

First found in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1915 by Cornell researchers M.D. Leonard and C.R. Crosby, the fairyfly Gonatocerus ovicenatus has not been collected on the continent since then, prompting some European entomologists to question whether it truly was established in North America.

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