Having never seen one before, I've been fascinated by Strepsitera in recent days and been checking every Polistes wasp just in case - then a male flew in to the house and landed on the table in front of me! I fear that its rear abdomen was slightly damaged in some photos as it was under a glass.
@gung Hi Daniel, is there enough detail here to determine the family, or further? With many thanks
This observation is about the strepsipteran in the abdomen.
on Stachys sylvatica (Wald-Ziest); meine erste Sichtung dieser Art in Thüringen bzw. Mitteldeutschland