Yellow-cheeked Ichneumon Wasp: Male, Abdomen

Yellow-cheeked Ichneumon Wasp (Westwoodia cf romani)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Yellow-cheeked Ichneumon Wasp (Westwoodia cf romani)

This Photo:

Male, Abdomen

Thank you Simon Taylor & Dan Blamey (HeadSoup) for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
We thought it was a Braconid wasp but Dan id'ed it to Ichneumonidae saying "Discosubmarginal wing cell is not divided and it looks like 2m-cu is present. Very similar colouring to braconids though!".
Simon saw it some time later saying "Laterally projecting membranous epipleuron 1."

This species is

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

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