# HELP ID this insect (wasp?)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 10, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492 "2013-09-10T12:07:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492/1 "2013-09-10T12:07:42Z")
[ ](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg)
It certainly looks like a wasp though it looks smaller than the common paper wasp. The contrasting color of its bright red head and its dark bluish body is quite interesting. I’ve searched the web and found [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/rundstedt/3802914195/). But no one in the comments section was able to identify it.
Any idea?
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492/2 "2013-09-10T12:52:22Z")
On first review, it looks like a hymenoptera of the Asian wood-boring genus Euxiphydria.
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### Author:  [@harryferrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harryferrel)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492/3 "2013-09-10T13:12:38Z")
It’s hard to identify but it looks like a Cicada Killer Wasp with a red head. This is the first time I saw that kind of wasp.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492/4 "2013-09-10T13:15:51Z")
Cicada Killers are far larger than a common paper wasp. I’m sticking with the Asian sawfly, although I will not swear to the exact species.
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### Author:  [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492/5 "2013-09-10T13:18:25Z")
The flickr link has more pictures if you scroll down. The pictures were taken in the Philippines.
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-insect-wasp/668492/6 "2013-09-10T14:43:11Z")
Well, what we call cicada-killers here in North America[look decidedly different](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=1106&q=cicada+killer+wasp&oq=cicada+killer+wasp&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.1233.5404.0.7020.18.10.0.8.8.0.89.656.10.10.0....0...1ac.1.26.img..0.18.715.gCk2HLLqfZA). But other critters might be named that in other places.