Small Mud-nesting Wasp
Face
Ellura
Yellow-faced Mud-collar Wasp
Male, dorsal
 
                      
Small Mud-nesting Wasp (Euodynerus cf sp ES01)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Potter Wasp (Wasp: Vespidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Small Mud-nesting Wasp (Euodynerus cf sp ES01)
This Photo:     Posterior

Thank you Marco Selis for identifying and Brian Dagley for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
This one was ~10mm long.
Very similar to Abispa sp, but smaller. We thought it was an Anterhynchium sp.
Marco said "It looks like an Euodynerus, but I'll have to check literature"

Copyright © 2019-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 16-Nov-2019
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.