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Family ICHNEUMONIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Yellow-banded Ichneumon Wasps that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 22mm, female
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- This is quite a large Ichneumon wasp. We found the male and female flying
on vegetations in someone's front yard during a sunny day in mid winter. They
both have the typical wasp colour pattern and with very long antenna. Notice
the female have the long and strong ovipositor at the tip of her abdomen.
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- Male
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- They attack a variety of moth caterpillars.
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- Please check the Ichneumon Wasps page for
more general information above this wasp.
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- Reference and Link:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 944.
- 2. An introduction to the Ichneumonidae of Australia - Gauld, I.D. 1984,
British Museum, p64.
- 3. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 4. Wasps - family Ichneumonidae - lifeunseen.com, by Nick Monaghan.
- 5. Echthromorpha intricatoria
- Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO, 2005.
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