Flower Wasp:

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae)

Species:

Flower Wasp (Ariphron sp)

This Photo:

Thank you Dr Graham Brown for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
Originally we thought this was Rhagigaster sp

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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