Flat Flower Wasp Male, Anterior | Small Flower Wasp Male, face | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Small Flower Wasp (Aeolothynnus cf sp ES02) | ||||
This Photo: | Male, dorsal | ||||
Thank you Dr Graham Brown for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere A small, hairy wasp of ~6-7mm. Originally thought this was a Catocheilus sp. But typically we'd expect Catocheilus to be large (~25mm) and smoother. Then we thought Agriomyia sp, but Graham said "more likely to be Aeolothynnus, definitely not Agriomyia which has a broader abdomen" | |||||
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