Yellow Flank Braconid Wasp - Callibracon flaviceps
(former Poecilobracon flaviceps)
Family BRACONIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Yellow Flank Braconid Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- We saw this wasp a few times in Karawatha Forest during early to late summer.
- This wasp in the photos must be a female for she had the typical long ovipositor of a female Ichneumon wasp. The wasp had the black body, with yellow flank and yellow-banded abdomen. It wings were tinted with half orange and half dark brown, Its head was orange in colour, with black antenna. All its legs were black.
- When we took those pictures the wasp was checking a pupa on tree trunk. This wasp just kept on what it was doing and ignored our approaching.
- The genus Callibracon is known the parasitises of Longicorn Beetle larvae.
- Please check the Braconid Wasps main page for more general information about this wasp.
- Reference:
- 1. What wasp is that? - An interactive identification guide to the Australasian families of Hymenoptera, 2007.
- 2. Unknown Ichneumon wasp with yellow flanks - lifeunseen.com. Insects and Spiders of Sunshine Coast by Nick Monaghan.
- 3. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 948, plate 6 ZB.
- 4. Species Callibracon flaviceps (Cameron, 1901) - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
