Seven-toothed Cuckoo Wasp: Female, ventral

Seven-toothed Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysis festina)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Cuckoo Wasp (Wasp:Chrysididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Seven-toothed Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysis festina)

This Photo:

🔍Female, ventral🔎

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10.5mm.
The trailing abdominal teeth are diagnostic here there are 6 large and 1 small one making 7 teeth (hence the name).
Notice it's iridescent green/blue, covered in small, white hairs.
The body is also covered in punctuations.

This species is

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

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