Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp
Female, dorsal
Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp
Female, Tooth
| Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp Female, dorsal | | Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp Female, Tooth | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Ichneumon Wasp (Wasp: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp (Heteropelma scaposum) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Female, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dan B (HeadSoup) for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~20mm long. Thought it was Trichomma sp at first, but the ovi-positor is too short. Then Habronyx sp but the wing venation isn't right. But Dan saved the day and said "Easiest tell is the 'flat' looking veins Cu1 and 1m-cu running in series. Habronyx, etc have 1m-cu curved and longer than Cu1. There is also a small 'tooth' at the base of the pronotum in profile, which can just barely be seen between the front femur/tibia. Also the eyes converge in Habronyx/Trichomma ventrally more." | |||||
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