Sand Wasp: Female, Digging Spines on the Tarsi

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Digging Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae)

Species:

Sand Wasp (Bembix sp ES4)

This Photo:

Female, Digging Spines on the Tarsi

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee), and elsewhere
Notice the 2 ventral shots with this specimen. They seem very different, but the black marks are hidden when it curves it's abdomen in; they were only visible when it fully stretched out.

This species is

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

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