Metallic Bronze Parasitic Wasp:

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Parasitic Wasp (Wasp: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Metallic Bronze Parasitic Wasp (Semiotellus sp)

This Photo:

Thank you Dr Jean-Yves Rasplus (ChalcidJyY) for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Jean said "Notauli deep, deep punctuation on mesosoma and (not visible here) Fore wing with characteristic setal lines arising from the stigma and along the cubital vein."

This species is

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

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