Small Red Spider Wasp: S2, Wing Venation

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Spider Wasp (Wasp: Pompilidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Small Red Spider Wasp (Psoropempula sp)

This Photo:

S2, Wing Venation

Thank you Sam Gordon for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10mm long.
Different species have different coloured legs.
There is a very similar species but with a red head, called a Redback Spider-hunting Wasp (Agenioideus nigricornis).
Iskander Kaliananda told us "Psoropempula are kleptoparasites ... instead of targeting the wasp larva, they utilise the spiders already caught and stored by the other Pompilid."

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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