Black Flower Wasp
Ventral
Adelaide Hills
Beautiful Flower Wasp
Male, Released, dorsal
 
                      
Flower Wasp (Tachynomyia sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae)
Species: Flower Wasp (Tachynomyia sp)
This Photo:     

Thank you Dr Graham Brown for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere

Copyright © 2015-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 29-Oct-2015
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.