White Flank Black Braconid wasp - Syngaster lepidus
Family BRACONIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about White Flank Black Braconid Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm
- The wasp has the orange head, black thorax and black abdomen with white patterns on flank. Its wings are tinted in black colour.
- This species is parasitoids of Longicorn Beetle larvae.
- Please check the Braconid Wasps main page for more general information on this wasp.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p269.
- 2. Syngaster lepida - Digital Insect of Taiwan Agriculture Research Institute, Taiwan Agriculture Research Institute.
- 3. The hymenopterous parasitoids of eucalypt longicorn beetles, Phoracantha spp. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Australia - A. D. Austin, D. L. J. Quicke and P. M. Marsh (1994). . Bulletin of Entomological Research,84, pp 145-174.
- 4. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p948.
