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Metallic black sawfly

Perga affinis

Description:

30mm long; black head, thorax, abdomen; pale yellow legs; bright yellow scuba tank and tubes; very short black antennae with knobs; wings overlapped in rest create two sections of metallic colour - outer halves show deep orange-gold metal glitter flakes under heavy black venation - inner halves show chrome under clear heavy black venation;

Habitat:

On gum leaf (E. microcarpa) in suburban fringe area to dry eucalyptus forest.

Notes:

Related to Steel-blue sawfly http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/173... http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax... Hymenoptera; Pergidae; Perginae; Perga;

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5 Comments

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

Maybe your Soldier Fly is imitating this Sawfly?

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Found it.

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

I thought you'd say that about the rich wing color as I clicked my comment in. That's good too.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

Don't know about that martin - can't even ID this one.
I know what you mean with pic2 but I went for the two-tone metallic duco wings.
(always had a soft spot for those early 60's American monster cars)

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

I can see that you will become the Hymenoptera expert. I like pic# 2 for the cute antennae and better focus (=

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Feb 9, 2012
Submitted on Feb 9, 2012

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