HYMENOPTERA > APOCRITA | Parasitica > Ichneumonidae > Cryptinae > Cryptini

This very distinctive short-winged (brachypterous) species is pretty uncommon, so I was particularly fortunate to both see one and get a couple of decent photos before it disappeared into the vegetation. Although obvious from the featured image, Agrothereutes abbreviatus is described as having a basically reddish colouration with a dark final third to the abdomen and a white tip. The hind femora are dark in the apical third and the hind tibia are white at the base. The head is black and the thorax reddish or dark. The antennae are also reddish at the base darkening before the white mid-section before darkening towards the tip.