Wingless Flower Wasp: Female, ventral

Wingless Flower Wasp (Catocheilus apterus)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Flower Wasp (Wasp:Thynnidae:Thynninae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Wingless Flower Wasp (Catocheilus apterus)

This Photo:

🔍Female, ventral🔎

Thank you Simon Taylor (Simon__Taylor) for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
Females are flightless/wingless. In these photo's she was sitting on the very top of a Fleshy Saltbush waiting to be picked up by a mate, to then breed.
This is actually a species complex. We thought it was this genus, but then Simon was able to take it to the species complex level.

This species is

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

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