Black Flower Wasp
Ventral
Adelaide Hills
Flower Wasp
S1, Female, dorsal
 
                 
Flower Wasp (Tachynomyia sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Flower Wasp (Wasp:Thynnidae:Thynninae)
Species: Flower Wasp (Tachynomyia sp)
This Photo:     Male, dorsal, Wings

Thank you Dr Graham Brown for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere

Copyright © 2015-2026 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 29-Oct-2015
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.