Armyworm Parasitic Wasp
S1 Female: dorsal
Armyworm Parasitic Wasp
S1 Female: profile
| Armyworm Parasitic Wasp S1 Female: dorsal | | Armyworm Parasitic Wasp S1 Female: profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Armyworm Parasitic Wasp (Ichneumon promissorius) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S2 Female: dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dan B (HeadSoup) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere About 12mm long, with black body, orange/red legs & white stripes on the abdomen and antennae. The body has several white spots. We have only found females, which do not have visible ovi-positors. The males look quite different, being more orange and appearing thinner. Their antennae are longer, more orange and don't have the white stripe shown on the females here. We have recently bought some jeweler's scales. They only measure in 10mg increments so aren't really accurate enough for inverts. But may work in a comparitive sense (ie between our finds). This specimen weighed around 30mg. We found one specimen in February. | |||||
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