Black-legged Hopping Wasp
S1, Female, ventral
Hopping Wasp
Dorsal, ~5mm long
| Black-legged Hopping Wasp S1, Female, ventral | | Hopping Wasp Dorsal, ~5mm long | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Chalcidid Wasp (Wasp: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Red-legged Hopping Wasp (Antrocephalus sp ES02) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Female, profile🔎 | ||||
| Other names: | Chalcid Wasp or Parasitoid Wasp | ||||
Thank you (ChalcidJyY) for identifying and Dr Austin Baker for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Flinders Ranges and possibly elsewhere We asked Dr Austin Baker the difference between sub-family Chalcidinae & Haltichellinae he said "One of the easiest characters that I use to tell them apart is the shape of the hind tibia. It's a lot more curved in other subfamilies, and Haltichellinae tends to have it more straight. Also, if you look at the apex of the hind tibia, it's more or less perpendicular to the length so that it looks flat, but in other subfamilies it tends to be more sharply angled, ending in a point." | |||||
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