Pale-legged Gasteruptiid Wasp: Male, dorsal

Pale-legged Gasteruptiid Wasp (Gasteruption sp ES07)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Gasteruptiid Wasp (Wasp: Gasteruptiidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Pale-legged Gasteruptiid Wasp (Gasteruption sp ES07)

This Photo:

🔍Male, dorsal🔎

Thank you Dr Ben Parslow for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Male, ~12mm long & ~12mm wingspan. These are unusual ratios, with the wingspan normally being quite a bit larger than the head & body length.
Found in Melaleuca lanceolata flowers during the day.
Normally they are very hard to see but the blackness of it's body contrasted with the white Melaleuca flowers.

This species is

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

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