Black-striped Mummy Wasp
Host Once Emerged
Orange-headed Red Braconid Wasp
S2, Female, profile
Animals
Plants
Info
| Black-striped Mummy Wasp Host Once Emerged | | Orange-headed Red Braconid Wasp S2, Female, profile | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | 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 (Vipiellus sp ES01)| This Photo: | 🔍S4, Female, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Kerri-Lee Harris for identifying and Dr Gideon Pisanty for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~9mm long. Originally thought to be Callibracon based on the very characteristic colour pattern, wing venation, head and body shape.
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