Beautiful Flower Wasp
Male, Mallee Sunset
Beautiful Flower Wasp
Male, Wing Venation
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| Beautiful Flower Wasp Male, Mallee Sunset | | Beautiful Flower Wasp Male, Wing Venation | | ||
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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: | Beautiful Flower Wasp (Thynnus pulchralis)| This Photo: | 🔍Male, Pronotum🔎 | Thank you Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~21mm long Male. Females are wingless. We were VERY excited when Marie found this in our shadehouse yesterday. A very rare find. This is the first time, on-line, found in the SA Murraylands Region. The recent Murray River floods may have had an impact on extending it's known range. A stunning Flower Wasp, with an Aztec-like theme stencilled on it's back. Reminds us of a Sunset over mallee trees on a hot day. Not only does it have vibrant & contrasting colours, the yellow pigment is missing in many places making detailed patterns and showing the clear substrate of it's exoskeleton. In the profile shot you can see how squared-off the front of the abdomen is. When sitting normally you don't see the waiste, making it look very much like a sawfly. It looks very Bembix like underneath.
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