Yellow-bellied Ichneumon Wasp Female, Hairy Head | Yellow-cheeked Ichneumon Wasp Male, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Yellow-bellied Ichneumon Wasp (Temelucha sp) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Female, Yellow Belly🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dan Blamey (HeadSoup) for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~12mm long (body & head), excluding antennae & ovipositor 1. Hairy 2. Very long ovipositor 3. Over 40 segment antennae 4. Thin, bent waist/petiole 5. Thin abdomen 6. Large ocelli 7. Body punctuated with pitting 8. Thin legs 9. A strange scallop like shape between it's throax segments 10. Holds it's wings flat/horizontal at rest 11. And finally the yellow markings - at the antennae joins, wing joins, ventrally & postior abdomen Dan said "Can't quite see some of the details to absolutely confirm (underneath T1, 2nd Tergite profile view), but Temelucha is the only genus of Cremastinae Gauld mentions with an ovipositor longer than 2.5x the hind tibia." | |||||
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