Large Yellow Flower Wasp Female, S7, ventral | Small Black Flower Wasp Female, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae) | ||||
Species: | Small Black Flower Wasp (Iswaroides sp) | ||||
This Photo: | Male, dorsal | ||||
Thank you Dr Graham Brown for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We caught this male & female mating. The male ~9mm long, while the female was ~6.5mm. Black, with not patterns that we could discern. | |||||
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