Bug Egg Parasitoid - Anastatus sp.

Family Eupelmidae

Eupelmid wasps are small in size and usually dark in colour, often metallic.

This page contains pictures and information about Bug Egg Parasitoid Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.


Body length 4mm

We saw this wasp wandering around those Cotton Plant Bug eggs a few times. We believed the wasp is parasitic to those eggs.



This wasp had wing patterns makes it looked like a small black ants when it was examining the bug eggs. Looked closer we found it was winged and with metallic black body colour.




Wasp in opal colour

? sp. body length 12mm

Pictures were taken on June 2007 in Karawatha Forest. We thought this was a chalcidoid, Graham advised that this is Eupelmidae.

Reference:
1. A field guide to insects in Australia - By Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey, Reed New Holland, 1996, p187.
2. Spined citrus bug - Jianhua Mo, Research Entomologist, Plant Health Sciences, Yanco, HSW DPI, June 2006.