Black & Yellow Flower Wasp
Dorsal
Gold-lined Flower Wasp
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| Black & Yellow Flower Wasp Dorsal | | Gold-lined Flower Wasp Profile | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Flower Wasp (Wasp:Thynnidae:Thynninae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Gold-lined Flower Wasp (Aeolothynnus cf sp ES05)| This Photo: | Dorsal | Thank you Dr Graham Brown for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long, with bluish/grey pale blotches on the abdomen. We couldn't get a clear view of the top side, but ventrally these blotches are like ellipses with off centre hole in the middle. We think this is a male, as in some shots it looks like an ovipositor but in one shot you can see 3 clear appendages. We've seen similar in other males. The facial markings are quite unusual in that they graduate from orangy brown on top to bluish white/grey at the bottom. The clearest wing venation we were able to get was in the ventral shot.
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