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Small wasp sighted in garden foliage and visiting Thryptomene flowers.

Suggested ID based on images on the Brisbane Insects website.

About 1.5 cm long

Emerged from black and white speckled cocoon

Wasp caught by an assassin bug. (Pristhesancus plagipennis I think)

under 10mm, shaken out of psyllid-infested eucalypt

BL~ 10mm

Backyard

Female. Second photo mating with male

A small Ichneumonid c. 1 cm total length always seen on the ground amongst eucalypt litter.

Not entirely confident this is an ichneumonid

a relatively large Ichneumonid

Malaise Trap from 20/03 - 03/04/2016

on 2nd photo distance beetween "2" and "3" is one inch (2,54cm)

Cryptinae sp. GC6
Identified as Ichneumonidae on Bowerbird by Graeme Cocks

Light Trap 12V UV light, 1.45mm mesh size, 2 x 1.5 x 1m white mesh tent

Approx 7mm long. Caught and released

Sample from Malaise trap, Aranda, ACT, Australia, 23-30 September 2022

Sample from Malaise trap, Aranda, ACT, Australia, 25 June to 2 July 2021

Lissonota sp.

Approx 2cm long . Caught and released

small wasp with body length c. 5 mm

hothouse tennants

This wasp was paralysed (not dead), and being carted off by a red spider ant. I've only seen this species once before.