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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Auckland Central, 10-12 Symonds Street (University of Auckland City Campus, Human Sciences Building courtyard). Habitat: Parasaissetia nigra. On cultivated cycads. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Collected as a larva. Adult male emerged 1-2 April 2015. REFERENCES Thorpe, S.E. 2013: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), new to New Zealand for the second time! Biodiversity data journal, 1: e959. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e959
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Auckland Central, 10-12 Symonds Street (University of Auckland City Campus, Human Sciences Building courtyard). Habitat: Parasaissetia nigra. On cultivated cycads. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Collected as a larva. Adult male emerged 1-2 April 2015. REFERENCES Thorpe, S.E. 2013: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), new to New Zealand for the second time! Biodiversity data journal, 1: e959. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e959
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Auckland Central, 10-12 Symonds Street (University of Auckland City Campus, Human Sciences Building courtyard). Habitat: Parasaissetia nigra. On cultivated cycads. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Collected as a larva. Adult male emerged 1-2 April 2015. REFERENCES Thorpe, S.E. 2013: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), new to New Zealand for the second time! Biodiversity data journal, 1: e959. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e959
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Auckland Central, 10-12 Symonds Street (University of Auckland City Campus, Human Sciences Building courtyard). Habitat: Parasaissetia nigra. On cultivated cycads. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Collected as a larva. Adult male emerged 1-2 April 2015. REFERENCES Thorpe, S.E. 2013: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), new to New Zealand for the second time! Biodiversity data journal, 1: e959. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e959
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Alectryon excelsus. Beaten from foliage. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Female. This is the first one that I have encountered since my last recorded observation for this species.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Alectryon excelsus. Beaten from foliage. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Female. This is the first one that I have encountered since my last recorded observation for this species.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Alectryon excelsus. Beaten from foliage. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Female. This is the first one that I have encountered since my last recorded observation for this species.
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13mm long. Caught on an inside window.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus. Habitat: Alectryon excelsus. Beaten from foliage. Identification: Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832). Female. This is the first one that I have encountered since my last recorded observation for this species.
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Rather a beauty!
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Rather a beauty!
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20mm
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus (East) Habitat: Swards of long grass. Identification: Ichneumon promissorius Erichson, 1842. Female.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus (East) Habitat: Swards of long grass. Identification: Ichneumon promissorius Erichson, 1842. Female.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus (East) Habitat: Swards of long grass. Identification: Ichneumon promissorius Erichson, 1842. Female.
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Don't know what this cool guy is. has similar colour to some Ichneumonids, but it has a lack of long, parasitising tail :/