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Order Hymenoptera, Family Braconidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Braconid Wasps in
subfamily Orange Braconinae that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Braconinae is a large subfamily of parasitic wasps in Braconidae. Braconid wasps in this subfamily are often black, red, orange and/or white in
colours. Their wings are often dark or yellow-banded. They are from small to
medium size. Females have the extended ovipositor. Their larvae are mostly external parasitic on
moth caterpillars or
beetle larvae. Several species are known to parasitise concealed
fly
and sawfly larvae.
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- Braconid Wasps in subfamily Braconinae can be distinguished with the
followings characteristic;
- - usually black, red, orange and white in colours with
dark or yellow-banded wings, female with extended ovipositor,
- - antenna cylindrical, not wider than thick,
- occipital carina absent,
- - pronotum distinctly developed anteriorly,
- palpi distinctly developed and easily visible,
- vein 3-M of fore wing often largely sclerotized,
- vein 2m-cu of fore wing absent,
- vein 2-CU of hind wing usually absent,
- hind basitarsus shorter than combined length of following segments,
- vein m-cu of hind wing absent or straight when present.
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Genus lphiaulax - Band-winged Braconid Wasps
- The genus lphiaulax comprise medium to large size Braconid Wasps.
They are bright coloured insects with smooth hairless head and body. Most of
them are idiobiont ectoparasitoids of Longicorn
Beetle larvae. Some other parasitise Moth
caterpillars.
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- lphiaulax species can be distinguished with the
followings characteristic;
- - forewing vein 3-SR more than twice length of r-m; posterior margins of metasomal tergites 3-5
- Ovipositor without a pre-apical dorsal notch or nodus
- Ovipositor less than 1.4 times length of forewing
- forewing vein 2-1A not strongly curved or angled
- Scapus at least as long or longer ventrally than dorsally in lateral aspect when directed anteriorly, often cylindrical and large
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- Black Tip
Band-winged Braconid Wasp
 - lphiaulax danielsi, body length 15mm
- This wasp is orange in colour with black head and black antenna. Its legs
are orange. Its wings are also tinted with orange with black bands. This Braconid
Wasp looks very similar to the wasp above except the abdomen tip of this
wasp is black in colour. Please check this page
for more information.
Genus Chaoilta -
Jewel Beetle Parasitoids
- The genus Chaoilta comprise medium to large size Braconid Wasps.
They are believed the parasitises of Jewel Beetle
larvae which live under bark.
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- Chaoilta species can be distinguished with the
followings characteristic;
- - Scapus angularly narrowed basally,
- - Face with or without medial horn-like projection,
- - head and body with short hairs, eyes smooth and hairless,
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- Yellow Flank Braconid Wasp
 
 - Chaoilta hollowayi, body length 15mm,
female
- The wasp had the black body, with yellow flank and yellow-banded abdomen.
It wings were tinted with half orange and half dark brown, Its head was orange
in colour, with black antenna. All its legs were black. More pictures and
information can be found in this page.
Genus Callibracon - Longicorn Parasitoids
- The genus Callibracon comprise medium to large size Braconid Wasps.
From reference information wasps in this genus associate with wood boring
Coleopterous include Cerambycid and
Elaterid hosts.
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- - Abdomen moderately elongate and largely smooth and
shiny,
- - pronotum convex,
- - Ovipositor with a pre-apical dorsal notch.
- - Ovipositor less than 1.4 times length of forewing
- - forewing vein 2-1A not strongly curved or angled, 1-SR+M distinctly
curved,
- - Scapus at least as long or longer ventrally than dorsally in lateral aspect when directed anteriorly, often cylindrical and large,
- - occipital carina absent,
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- White Flank Black Braconid Wasp I
 - Callibracon capitator, body length 15mm, male, female
- We found this wasp once in Alexandra Hill on July 2007. The larvae of this
wasp is known to parasite on Longicorn
Beetle. Please also visit this page
for more pictures on this species.
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- White Flank Black Braconid Wasp II
- Callibracon limbatus, body length 15mm, female
- This species look very similar to the above species. We distinguished them
by the very long ovipositor and the orange-coloured antenna base segment of this species. Please check this
page for more information.
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- White Flank Orange Braconid Wasp I
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- ? Callibracon sp., body length 15mm, male, female
- We saw this wasp a few times in Karawatha Forest. The wasp has the orange
head and thorax, black abdomen with white patterns. Its wings are tinted in
black colour. Please visit this page.
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- White Flank Orange Braconid Wasp II
 - ? Callibracon sp., body length 15mm, female
- Please check this page for more information.
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Genus Campyloneurus - Stout Braconid Wasps
- The genus
Campyloneurus comprise medium size Braconid Wasps.
From reference information wasps in this genus associate with Cerambycid
larvae as hosts.
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- - Metasoma short, robust and strongly sculptured,
- - Ovipositor with a pre-apical dorsal notch.
- - Ovipositor less than 1.4 times length of forewing
- - forewing vein 2-1A not strongly curved or angled
- - Scapus at least as long or longer ventrally than dorsally in lateral aspect when directed anteriorly, often cylindrical and large
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- Orange Stout Braconid Wasp
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Campyloneurus sp., body length 10mm, male
- This wasp has the abdomen shorter than the thorax. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Black Head Stout Braconid Wasp
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Campyloneurus sp., body length 15mm, female
- Confusing isn't it? This wasp looks the same as the wasps above except its
head is black in colour and with shorter ovipositor. It was also found in Karawatha
Forest on Nov 2007. This wasp seems like to rest
on stem as we always found them there. Please click on here
for more information about this wasp.
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Genus Pycnobraconoides - Leaf Beetle
Parasitoids
- White Flank Black Head Braconid Wasp
 - Pycnobraconoides sp., body length 15mm, male, female
- Picture taken in Yugarapul Park on Nov 2008. This wasp seems like to rest
on stem as we always found them there. Also found this wasp in Carbrook
Wetland. Please check this page for more
information.
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Genus Bracon
- Braconid Wasp
- Bracon sp., body length 10mm
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p948.
- 2. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009,
- 3. Wasps - family Braconidae
- lifeunseen.com, by Nick Monaghan.
- 4. Family BRACONIDAE - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
- 5. What
wasp is that? - An interactive identification guide to the
Australasian families of Hymenoptera, 2007.
- 6. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p269.
- 7. Digital Insect of Taiwan Agriculture Research Institute - Taiwan Agriculture Research Institute.
- 8. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 948, plate 6 ZB.
- 9. A
revision of the Australian species of Iphiaulax Foerster and Chaoilta
Cameron (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) - Quicke, D. L. J., 1991.
Records of the Australian Museum 43(1): 63–84. [22 March 1991].
- 10. Braconine wasps of Australia - Quicke,
D.L.J., Ingram, S.M. (1993), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33 (1): 299-336.
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