Armyworm Parasitic Wasp S1 Female, Wing Venation | Armyworm Parasitic Wasp S1 Female, anterior | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Armyworm Parasitic Wasp (Ichneumon promissorius) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S3 Male, Wing Venation🔎 | ||||
Other names: | Armyworm Parasitoid Wasp or Banded Caterpillar Parasite Wasp | ||||
Thank you Dan Blamey (HeadSoup) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~12-14mm long Females, with the male we caught measured ~14mm. Black body, orange/red legs & white stripes on the abdomen and antennae. The body has several white spots. Females do not have visible ovi-positors. The males look quite different, being more orange and appearing thinner. Their antennae are longer, more orange and don't have the white stripe shown on the females. We have recently bought some jeweler's scales. They only measure in 10mg increments so aren't really accurate enough for inverts. But may work in a comparitive sense (ie between our finds). S1 weighed around 30mg. | |||||
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