Callibracon capitator

Callibracon capitator has a reddish head, all black thorax, and gaster with large white membranous regions either side early and the later segments banded white. The wings are dark and the females have their ovipositors just longer than their abdomen. <href=”https://tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com/callibracon-limbatus”>C. limbatus is a similar looking species but with minor differences which are briefly described on the respective species page.

Female
Late April 2008
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart

Female
Late June 2014
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart

    

Female
Early January 2015
Buckland
 
Female
Early June 2015
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart

        

Male
Late December 2016
Peter Murrell Reserve, Blackmans Bay
 
Mid February 2018
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart