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The slender ovipositor must accommodate at least two mechanical requirements: the strength to puncture a substrate and the flexibility to navigate through it. During puncturing, the ovipositor is often mechanically stabilized with external supports, while coordinated pushing and pulling of the three ovipositor elements generate motions through the substrate. Both mechanisms reduce bending moments along the ovipositor thereby preventing failure-prone buckling deformations. Despite the efficacy of these mechanisms, it is anticipated that drilling into stiff and tough media requires reinforced structures, creating a potential trade-off with maneuverability. Here, we investigated whether ovipositor morphology reflects substrate-specific adaptations across the two largest hymenopteran families: Ichneumonidae and Braconidae. We compared 22 morphometrics measured from the ovipositor cross-sections of 86 species reported in the literature. 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