Orange-headed Red Braconid Wasp: S4, Female, profile

Orange-headed Red Braconid Wasp (Callibracon sp ES10)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Parasitic Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Orange-headed Red Braconid Wasp (Callibracon sp ES10)

This Photo:

🔍S4, Female, profile🔎

Thank you Dr Gideon Pisanty for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~9mm long.
When we asked Gideon what differentiated these from other Braconid's he said "The colour pattern is very characteristic. Also the wing venation, head shape and body shape".

This species is

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

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