A parasitic wasp at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Monomachus antipodalis | 29 May 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Unidentified | 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.
7 comments
KerriLee
wrote:
26 May 2020
very cool wasp Steph! ... not one I recognise but I'll see if I can find it
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.
KerriLee
wrote:
27 May 2020
I think it is Monomachus antipodalis ... apparently a common species in Canberra. A match, do you think? https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Species/29907
I'd like to wait to hear from Kim before confirming it to species level.
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.
JackieMiles
wrote:
30 May 2020
Nifty. I've added these images to the ID pages, and the info about parasitising B. 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
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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