Sand Wasp: Female, anterior, Digging

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Sand Wasp (Bembix sp ES01)

This Photo:

Female, anterior, Digging

Thank you Matt Campbell for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Females do the digging to lay their eggs, and so have digging spines on their front legs (specifically their tarsi which are the feet, the sections between the tibia & the claw).
Each species apparantly makes a different pattern in the sand to cover/hide their nest.

Kerri-Lee Harris said "The lack of obvious ocelli is confirmation of Bembix ... in other Bembicini they're well developed."

This species is

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

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