Black and White Ichneumon Wasp - Anacis sp.
Family ICHNEUMONIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Black and White Ichneumon Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
- This Black and White Ichneumon Wasp is black and white in colours. Females have medium length ovipositor. On the forewing there is the pentagon-shaped areolet slightly asymmetrical with 3r-m weaken.
- Female
- Male
- We often find those wasps in our backyard, land on the leaves and search for prey. They target at large cocoons of moths on stems or on barks. We usually find a pair of female and male searching on the same plant. The about pictures show a female with long ovipositor and a male without it.
- Please check the Ichneumon Wasps page for more general information above this wasp.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 945.
- 2. An introduction to the Ichneumonidae of Australia - Gauld, I.D. 1984, British Museum, page 158.
- 3. Wasps - family Ichneumonidae - lifeunseen.com, by Nick Monaghan.
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