Yellow-banded Leafroller Parasitoid Wasp
Female, ventral
Black Velvet Ant
Wingless Female
| Yellow-banded Leafroller Parasitoid Wasp Female, ventral | | Black Velvet Ant Wingless Female | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Velvet Ant (Wasp: Mutillidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Velvet Ant (Aglaotilla sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | Wingless Female | ||||
Thank you Dr Kevin Williams for identifying and Dr Denis Brothers for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere ~7mm long (head & body) Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) and Female Flower Wasps (Thynninae) 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 here (where the photo's are clear enough) the thorax is a solid shell/plate; ie the pronotum, mesoscutum, scutum, scutellum are fused together. | |||||
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