White-bellied Ichneumon Wasp
Male, anterior
Cream-spotted Ichneumon Wasp
S3, Male, dorsal
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| White-bellied Ichneumon Wasp Male, anterior | | Cream-spotted Ichneumon Wasp S3, Male, dorsal | | ||
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 | 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, ventral | Thank you Dan Blamey (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."
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