Black Flower Wasp Female, Wing Venation | Black Flower Wasp Female, Legs | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Anthoboscinae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Black Flower Wasp (Anthobosca sp) | ||||
This Photo: | Female, Antennae Shields | ||||
Thank you Dr Graham Brown & Kerri-Lee Harris for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere ~13mm long male. We were confused with the gender of this one. It has an ovi-positor AND wings. We thought female flower wasps don't have wings. However, Graham indicated that only sub-families Thynninae & Diamminae have wingless females. As such, we have added sub-family names within Thynnidae here to highlight the difference. The legs look like they are made for digging. There are interesting "shields" in front of the antennae on the face that we've never seen before. Do they protect them when digging? | |||||
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