Smooth-backed Parasitic Wasp: S1, Female, dorsal

Smooth-backed Parasitic Wasp (Lissonota sp)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Smooth-backed Parasitic Wasp (Lissonota sp)

This Photo:

🔍S1, Female, dorsal🔎

Thank you Simon Taylor for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~8.5mm long head & body.
Antennae & ovipositor ~9mm long each. ~26mm total length.
It seems this genus parasitises Cossid moths.

This species is

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

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