White Flank Orange Braconid wasp - ? Callibracon sp.

Family BRACONIDAE

This page contains pictures and information about Yellow Flank Orange Braconid Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length  20mm                         

 

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.

 

 

 

This wasp is quite common in Eucalypt forest in Brisbane.

 

 

 

 

 

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

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Reference:

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

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