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- Members in this family have long and thin body, with narrow waist like
most other wasps.
Usually they are small to medium in size.
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 - Body length
20mm
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- Their larvae are parasitic as most caterpillars are targeted host. The female wasp usually locates the food plants of the host
then searches with her antennae for a suitable host. The female has the long ovipositor which is used to insert eggs into the host body. The host will
usually survive when the larvae is still living inside. Until the larvae fully grown,
the larvae either pupates inside the dead host or form a cocoon outside.
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- The two families Braconidae and Ichneumonidae
are very close related and some species look similar. They can be distinguished
by the forewing venation. In the Ichneumons there is an extra vein creating
a cell which can not be found on Braconids.
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- Many aphid parasites are Braconid and their life cycles are similar.
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- White Flank Black Braconid Wasp
 - Callibracon sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 15mm
- We found this wasp once in Alexandra Hill on July 2007. The larvae of this
wasp is known to parasite on Longicorn
Beetle. Please also visit this page
for more pictures on this species.
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- White Flank Orange Braconid Wasp
 - ? Callibracon sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 20mm
- We saw this wasp a few times in Karawatha Forest. The wasp has the orange
head and thorax, black abdomen with white patterns. Its wings are tinted in
black colour. Please visit this page.
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- White Flank Black Head Braconid Wasp
 - ? Callibracon sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 15mm
- Confusing isn't it? This was look the same as the wasp above except its
head is black in colour and with shorter ovipositor. It was also found in Karawatha
Forest on Nov 2007.
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- Yellow Flank Braconid Wasp
 - ? Callibracon sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 20mm
- The wasp had the black body, with yellow flank and yellow-banded abdomen.
It wings were tinted with half orange and half dark brown, Its head was orange
in colour, with black antenna. All its legs were black. More pictures and
information can be found in this page.
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- Orange Braconid Wasp
 - ? Chaoilta sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 15mm
- This wasp is orange in colour with black head and black antenna. Its legs
are orange. Its wings are also tinted with orange with black bands. We recorded this wasp attached Tree
Lucerne Moth caterpillars. Details please check this page.
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- Braconid Wasp
 - ? sp., subfamily Braconinae, body length 15mm
- This wasp has a very long ovipositor which make believe it is a Ichneumon
Wasp. The wasp has a black head, long black antenna with white sections and
reddish-brown body. We took this picture in Yugarapul
Park in mid summer 2003.
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- Longtailed Fruit fly Parasitoid
 - Diachasmimorpha longicaudata, subfamily Opiinae, body length 4mm
- We have a plum plant in our backyard. Some fruits were infected by a kind
of small fruit
flies. There were the wound on the fruits, if we open it we will
see the small fruit fly larvae. Sometimes we saw the small wasp, as the about
pictures, examining the infected fruits. After checking the wound on the fruit,
the wasp will insert her ovipositor into the wound. We believed she laid eggs
which the larvae will hatch and parasite on the fruit fly larvae. Please
also check this web page.
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- Aphid Parasitic Wasp
 - Aphidius sp., subfamily Aphidiinae, body
length 2mm
- Aphid Parasitic Wasps, or Braconid Wasps,
are the very small wasps. The Parasitic Wasps can be found amongst the aphids colony, although
they may not been seen easily. The first picture shows a wasp laying egg into a aphid
body. The second picture shows a aphids colony, some of the aphids population are
dull brown in colour, which are parasitised by the wasp. More information and
pictures in this page.
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- Moth Caterpillar Parasite
 - ? sp, body length 10mm
- Reference:
- 1. Apanteles subandinus
- Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO 2005.
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- Unknown Wasp
 - ? sp, body length 10mm
- Graham Brown sent us email suggested that they right look like Ariphron
sp. (Tiphiidae)
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 945.
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