Black Head Orange Braconid Wasp - ? sp.
Family BRACONIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Black Head Orange Braconid Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
- This Braconid wasp is in the Helconinae subfamily. Larvae of this subfamily is the internal parasites of beetle larvae. We believed this wasp (in above photo) was just found a beetle larvae under bark and laying egg into it.
- This wasp has a very long ovipositor. The wasp has a black head, long black antenna with white sections and reddish-brown body. We took the above picture in Yugarapul Park in mid summer 2003.
- Braconid Wasps in subfamily Helconinae are endoparasites of Coleoptera larvae.
- We found this wasp again on Karawatha Forest on Nov 2007.
- Please check the Braconid Wasps main page for more general information about this wasp.
- Reference:
- 1. Northern Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009,
- 2. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p945, Fig42.20 B.
