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Hover Wasp
5.86438, 117.949
Field Notes
Description:
A wasp from the Stenogastrinae subfamily, possibly Parischnogaster species. It's body length is 10 - 17 mm. Reddish brown in color with yellow spots around it's body. The most unique feature of this species and genus is that they have a very long and narrow "waist" between the abdomen and the thorax.
Habitat:
Around the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary where there are plants with hanging vines or twigs, in Sandakan, Sabah.
Notes:
>>>Map accuracy : 150 m diamter. This type of wasps have a symbiotic relationship with hanging twigs and stick where they make it their resting spot or their larvae nursery by building their nests on it. Just before I took these photographs, there were 3 of them resting on this same twig, but only one stayed behind to be photographed.
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedNovember 8, 2013
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