Orange-tailed Digger Wasp S1, Female, Wing Venation | Rounded Grasshopper Wasp S1, Male, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Mud Dauber & Sand Wasp (Wasp: Sphecidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Orange-tailed Digger Wasp (Podalonia tydei ssp suspiciosa) | ||||
This Photo: | S3, Male, Wing Venation | ||||
Thank you Stephen Fricker & Anthony Paul for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere Females was ~17mm long, the males ~20mm. The wing venation is the same, as best as we can tell, but there are some differences that we have put down to gender. Bold has 3 images of this species, showing the same variations as here. She had very hairy front legs, perhaps for digging her nest? She also seemed to have a shorter waist. | |||||
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