Monomachus antipodalis

A parasitic wasp at Black Range, NSW

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Identification history

	Monomachus antipodalis	29 May 2020	KimPullen
	Unverified	26 May 2020	StephH

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User's notes

I'm guessing this one is a mayfly but don't know even the family to look in. It was about 25 mm long. Looks like a photo of an unidentified individual on page p 63 of Roger Farrow's Insects of SE Australia, 2016.

4 comments

jgl wrote:

26 May 2020

Hymenoptera

StephH wrote:

27 May 2020

Oh yes, I should have thought of wasps! Much more likely than a mayfly on Black Range in this drought! Thanks Kerri-Lee. I'll keep looking too.

StephH wrote:

27 May 2020

Thanks Kerri-Lee. Certainly looks like that wasp. I'm not good at insects and there are so many species that look superficially similar, so I'm very grateful to have this help with ID.

KimPullen wrote:

29 May 2020

These wasps are parasitoids of the Wingless soldier fly, Boreoides subulatus.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.849809 -36.730539
Places Black Range, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
25 May 2020 02:21 PM Recorded on
StephH Recorded by
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Insects Parasitic wasps (numerous families) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) StephH South Coast NatureMapr

Species information

Monomachus antipodalis Scientific name
A parasitic wasp Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 763.1m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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