Yellow-bellied Ichneumon Wasp
Female, Hairy Head
Ellura
Yellow-banded Leafroller Parasitoid Wasp
Female, dorsal
 
                      
Yellow-bellied Ichneumon Wasp (Temelucha sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Yellow-bellied Ichneumon Wasp (Temelucha sp)
This Photo:     🔍Female, Yellow Belly🔎

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

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~12mm long (body & head), excluding antennae & ovipositor
1. Hairy
2. Very long ovipositor
3. Over 40 segment antennae
4. Thin, bent waist/petiole
5. Thin abdomen
6. Large ocelli
7. Body punctuated with pitting
8. Thin legs
9. A strange scallop like shape between it's throax segments
10. Holds it's wings flat/horizontal at rest
11. And finally the yellow markings - at the antennae joins, wing joins, ventrally & postior abdomen
Dan said "Can't quite see some of the details to absolutely confirm (underneath T1, 2nd Tergite profile view), but Temelucha is the only genus of Cremastinae Gauld mentions with an ovipositor longer than 2.5x the hind tibia."

Copyright © 2020-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 18-Apr-2020
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.