






Tanaostigmodes sp. 1
Meaning of name:
Unknown.
Distribution:
Unknown.
Description:
This wasp was approximately 3 millimetres long.
Notes:
Female wasps lay their eggs in the tissue of Bossiaea eriocarpa. In response, the plant forms a gall around the foreign body – the egg. The young wasp feeds on the plant tissue inside the gall. It pupates in the gall and emerges as a fully formed adult wasp.
The galls were photographed in September and the wasps emerged in October.
Associations:
References:
Identification courtesy of Terry Houston, WA Museum.
Life in a Gall. Rosalind Blanche. 2012
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