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Family: Tiphiidae
A large wasp with a slender, long black abdomen with bright yellow lateral stripes. Head, thorax and antennae were black and legs were brown. Wings were tinted a smokey brown.
Spotted in a suburban garden.
This is a flower wasp - solitary wasps whose larvae are parasitoids of various beetle larvae. I am yet to ID this wasp - possibly Catocheilus sp.
Spotted on Nov 7, 2016
Submitted on Nov 7, 2016
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