Fruit fly Parasitoid - ? Opius sp.

Family BRACONIDAE

This page contains pictures and information about Fruit fly Parasitoid Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 3mm

 

We have a plum plant in our backyard. Some fruits were infected by a kind of small fruit flies Tephritidae. There were the wound on the fruits, if we open it we will see the small fruit fly larvae. Sometimes we saw the small wasp, as the about pictures, examining the infected fruits. After checking the wound on the fruit, the wasp will insert her ovipositor into the wound. We believed she laid eggs which the larvae will hatch and  parasite on the fruit fly larvae.

 

 

 

Please check the Braconid Wasps main page for more general information about this wasp. 

 

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Reference:

1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 948.

2. Diachasmimorpha longicaudata - Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO 2005. 

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