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Order Hymenoptera
- Eupelmid wasps are small in size and usually dark in colour, often
metallic. Their body is usually long and narrow, females have the short
but exerted ovipositor. They are Parasitoid of different families of
insects.
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- Bug Egg Parasitoid Wasp
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- Anastatus sp., body length 4mm
- We
saw this wasp wandering around those Cotton
Plant Bug eggs a few times. We believed the wasp is parasitic to those
eggs. This
wasp's wing patterns makes it looked like a small black ants when it was
examining the bug eggs. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Opal Eupelmid Wasp
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- ? Eupelmus sp., male, body length 12mm
- Pictures were taken on June 2007 in Karawatha Forest. We
thought this was a chalcidoid, Graham advised
that this wasp is in family Eupelmidae. Please click on here
for more information.
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- Reference:
- 1. A
field guide to insects in Australia - By Paul Zborowski and Ross
Storey, Reed New Holland, 1996, p187.
- 2. Spined citrus bug - Jianhua Mo, Research Entomologist, Plant Health Sciences,
Yanco, HSW DPI, June 2006.
- 3. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
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