Small Black Flower Wasp: Male, ventral

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Small Black Flower Wasp (Iswaroides sp)

This Photo:

Male, ventral

Thank you Dr Graham Brown for identifying and (SageOst) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
We caught this male & female mating. The male ~9mm long, while the female was ~6.5mm. Black, with not patterns that we could discern.

This species is

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

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