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crown wasp
-2.56285, 140.504
Field Notes
Description:
The Stephanidae, sometimes called crown wasps (a family of parasitoid wasps) named for their ocellar corona, a semicircular to circular set of projections around the middle ocellus, forming a "crown" on the head. See http://blog.perunature.com/2013/02/stephanidae-encounter-with-rare.html
Habitat:
Spotted on a tree stump in a large semi-urban yard & garden, near a disturbed patch of remnant lowland forest, in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
Notes:
When I first saw this thin long flying insect I thought it was a pair of mating damselflies, owing to the extraordinarily long ovipositor!
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 7, 2013
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