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Family EVANIIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about the Blue-eyed Hatchet Wasps in Family
Evaniidae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 15mm
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- The wasps have the flat and short abdomen which look like a hatchet. This
"hatchet" moves up and down when the wasp walks. They are mostly
black in colours. They are parasitic on cockroach
oothecae.
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- We quite often find this wasp outside our house resting on the wall alone
but do not know why they were there. They may be waiting for the
cockroach.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p942, fig.42.18.
- 2. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 3. What
wasp is that? - An interactive identification guide to the
Australasian families of Hymenoptera, 2007.
- 4. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p268.
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