Hopping Wasp
Cleaning Wings
Metallic Blue Parasitic Wasp
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| Hopping Wasp Cleaning Wings | | Metallic Blue Parasitic Wasp | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Chalcidid Wasp (Wasp: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Orange & Black Hopping Wasp (Brachymeria ucalegon)| This Photo: | 🔍Profile🔎 | Other name: | Orange and Black Hopping Wasp | Thank you Dr Jean-Yves Rasplus (ChalcidJyY) for identifying and Dan Blamey (HeadSoup) for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~6mm long Jean said "This species is quite characteristic with red-orange antenna, hind leg and metasoma, and whitish spots on legs and axillae. A parasite of maggot flies and blow flies
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