Green-eyed Parasitic Wasp
Female, ventral
Ellura
White-bellied Ichneumon Wasp
Male, profile, ~10mm
 
                      
White-bellied Ichneumon Wasp (Campopleginae sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae)
Species: White-bellied Ichneumon Wasp (Campopleginae sp)
This Photo:     Male, dorsal, antennae ~8mm

Thank you Dan B (HeadSoup) for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
We thought this was a Gasteruption wasp, but the wings of those fold down to the side. Here, the wings sit flat. While we recognised it was an Ichneumonidae sp, Dan was able to go further.
He said "It's hard to see but the stigma is quite narrow and I think I can see in the rear wing that Rs is about as long as Rm. Broad stigma and Rs much shorter than Rm are identifiers for Cremastinae, vs Campopleginae."

Copyright © 2017-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 25-May-2017
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.