Orange-faced Flower Wasp
Male, Mandibles, profile
Flower Wasp
Male
| Orange-faced Flower Wasp Male, Mandibles, profile | | Flower Wasp Male | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae) | ||||
| Species: | Flower Wasp (Eirone sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Mating🔎 | ||||
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 Female Flower Wasps (Thynninae) and Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) can look remarkably similar. Dr Kevin Williams made an important distinction between them, Thynninae have the "thorax divided into multiple plates". You can see with our velvets ants above (where the photo's are clear enough) the thorax is a solid shell/plate; ie the pronotum, mesoscutum, scutum, scutellum are fused together. Where as the female Thynninae below have them separated. | |||||
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