Green-eyed Parasitic Wasp
Female, ventral
Black-striped Mummy Wasp
S1, Male, profile
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| Green-eyed Parasitic Wasp Female, ventral | | Black-striped Mummy Wasp S1, Male, profile | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Parasitic Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Black-striped Mummy Wasp (Teresirogas sp ES01)| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Male, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Mollie Slater-Baker (MollieRSB) for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line 1st Record for SA on Atlas 1st Record on iNaturalist: ~7.5mm long male. This is a tentative id. The host shown was a Wattle Cup Moth (Calcarifera ordinata) larva. Mollie said "Based on the colouration, it might be an undescribed species! The palps of males in this genus are naturally swollen like this - females look similar but with smaller, more flattened palpi. They're only known from Ausralia currently, and parasitise Limacodidae." Later she added "I revisited the diagnosis of Teresirogas, and there are a few features that dont quite match your specimen (mostly the side profile of the face - Teresirogas has a very retangular protrusion). Also, they tend to have the second last segment of the palpi also a bit enlarged). I have a few specimens from WA which look similar to yours."
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