Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp
Female, dorsal
Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp
Female, Tooth
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| Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp Female, dorsal | | Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite Wasp Female, Tooth | | ||
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 | 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 Blamey (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 ovipositor 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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