Black Sand-loving Wasp:

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Digging Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae)

Species:

Black Sand-loving Wasp (Tachysphex sp ES1)

Thank you Reiner Richter for identifying and Dr Ken Walker for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Dr Ken Walker said "The important part of the wing venation is the elongate 3rd submarginal cell"

This species is

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

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