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Ensign wasp

Evania appendigaster (Linnaeus, 1758)

Status not recordedbees wasps and ants

The ensign wasp (Evania appendigaster) is a species in the family Evaniidae, order Hymenoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.

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Quick facts about the ensign wasp

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the ensign wasp live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The ensign wasp is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the ensign wasp as introduced in 5 countries.

  1. Costa Rica
  2. Ecuador
  3. South Africa
  4. St. Martin
  5. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the ensign wasp endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the ensign wasp classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHymenoptera
  5. familyEvaniidae
  6. genusEvania
  7. SpeciesEvania appendigaster (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Evania affinis, Evania cubae, Evania desjardinsi, Evania laevigata, Evania peringueyi, Evania unicolor, Ichneumon appendigaster, Ichneumon niger

Other names and names in other languages (16)
  • Blue-eyed ensign waspEnglish
  • Cockroach egg parasitoid waspEnglish
  • Common cockroach egg parasitoid waspEnglish
  • دبور الراية زرقاء العينينArabic
  • Avispa Bandera de Ojos AzulesSpanish
  • צירתיקן הבתיםHebrew
  • Tawon BenderaIndonesian
  • ゴキブリヤセバチJapanese
  • 벌레살이호리벌Korean
  • Vespa-BandeiraPortuguese
  • större hungerstekelSwedish
  • แตนเบียนหางธงธรรมดาThai
  • 廣旗腹蜂Chinese
  • Avispa Parasita de CucarachasSpanish
  • Vespa-Parasita-de-BaratasPortuguese
  • 蠊卵旗腹蜂Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the ensign wasp

Other species in the same genus Evania.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the ensign wasp live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the ensign wasp for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the ensign wasp an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the ensign wasp as introduced in 5 countries: Costa Rica, Ecuador, South Africa, St. Martin and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the ensign wasp?

The ensign wasp (Evania appendigaster) belongs to the family Evaniidae in the order Hymenoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ensign wasp (Evania appendigaster). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ensign-wasp

MLA

“Ensign wasp (Evania appendigaster).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ensign-wasp.

BibTeX
@misc{ensign_wasp_2026,
  title = {Ensign wasp (Evania appendigaster)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ensign-wasp},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}