Thread subject: Diptera.info :: What species is this?

Posted by rob1619 on 17-06-2008 18:45
#1

Found this fella late afternoon and wonder what species it is...thanks!

Posted by rob1619 on 17-06-2008 18:46
#2

More pics

Posted by rob1619 on 17-06-2008 18:47
#3

And the last pic.

Posted by ChrisR on 17-06-2008 21:26
#4

Looks like an evanoid wasp - perhaps Evania sp. ... but I'll let other more experienced people confirm or deny that :)

Posted by Gerard Pennards on 17-06-2008 21:36
#5

Yes, quite right, this should be Evania sp.!
Greetings

Posted by ChrisR on 17-06-2008 23:18
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The evanoids are some of my favourite wasps but I have never seen an Evania in the wild :( We get plenty of Gasteruption spp. here and in fact I caught a really unusual one yesterday in my garden ... it is really tiny (8-9mm head to tip of abdomen) so I am hoping it is G. minutum :D (looking good so far). It has the same strange way of sitting with its wings folded down between the gaster and hind legs too :)

Edited by ChrisR on 17-06-2008 23:33