Orange-faced Flower Wasp Male, Face | Flower Wasp Mating | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Orange-faced Flower Wasp (Belothynnus cf impetuosus) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Male, Mandibles, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Graham Brown for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line 2nd Record in SA on Atlas: ~23mm long. Black with almost no markings except on the face. The apparant brown 'u' shape on the top of the thorax appears to be dirt/sand; possibly hair. Graham said "It could be Belothynnus impetuosus but cannot tell for the photos." | |||||
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