Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Female, profile | Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Female, Leg Spines | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Hairy Flower Wasp (Wasp: Scoliidae) | ||||
Species: | Blue Hairy Flower Wasp (Austroscolia soror) | ||||
This Photo: | Female, Wing Venation | ||||
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), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Very dark blue, looking mainly black except for light reflections. Note the emarginate eyes. Having shorter antennae we assume this to be a female. If it wasn't for the indented eyes Graham said "it could have been one of a couple of thynnid genera - Anthobosca or Austromyzinum but fully black ones of these two genera are rare". | |||||
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