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The Stephanidae, sometimes called crown wasps (a family of parasitoid wasps) named for their ocellar corona, a semicircular to circular set of projections around the middle ocellus, forming a "crown" on the head. See http://blog.perunature.com/2013/02/steph...
Spotted on a tree stump in a large semi-urban yard & garden, near a disturbed patch of remnant lowland forest, in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
When I first saw this thin long flying insect I thought it was a pair of mating damselflies, owing to the extraordinarily long ovipositor!
Whoa! Are you sure that isn't a drone! lol That is just fantastic-great spotting and photos!
Spotted on Sep 7, 2013
Submitted on Sep 7, 2013
