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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Aulacid, Ensign, and Gasteruptiid Wasps (Evanioidea) » Ensign Wasps (Evaniidae) » Evania » Blue-eyed Ensign Wasp (Evania appendigaster)
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Black wasp with thin abdomen - Evania appendigaster - female
Copyright © 2016 erfanv

Black wasp with thin abdomen - Evania appendigaster - Female
Tyler, Smith County, Texas, USA
July 25, 2016
Size: <1cm
My Fiancé found this inside of her house. The wasp raises and drops her abdomen like a hammer sometimes.
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Contributed by erfanv on 25 July, 2016 - 3:22pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 25 July, 2016 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Thank you kindly!
… erfanv, 26 July, 2016 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

Evania appendigaster (female)…
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 25 July, 2016 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Thanks!
… erfanv, 26 July, 2016 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

Ensign wasp

You can read about them here
Furtunately, but also unfortunately for what they imply, they are parasitic on roach egg cases.
Great image!
… john and jane balaban, 25 July, 2016 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Thank you! I'm not sure what to tell my Fiancé
"Don't kill them. They're good. I can't tell you why..." :P

You can see it/download it at full resolution here if you like :)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134101550@N02/28515481786/in/dateposted-public/
… erfanv, 26 July, 2016 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

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