Yellow-faced Potter Wasp
S1, Male, Yellow Face
Yellow-faced Potter Wasp
S1, Male, Wing Venation
| Yellow-faced Potter Wasp S1, Male, Yellow Face | | Yellow-faced Potter Wasp S1, Male, Wing Venation | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Potter Wasp (Wasp: Vespidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Yellow-faced Potter Wasp (Diemodynerus cf decipiens ssp decipiens) | ||||
| This Photo: | S1, Male, Anterior | ||||
Thank you Marco Selis for identifying and Brian Dagley (BDagley) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: ~10mm long. Basically a black wasp, with yellow face markings and orange body patches. Notice the deeply emarginate eye and wings held up. In the wing venation description, this shows the difference between this species (top wing) and the very similar looking Paralastor wasps (lower wing). We thought this was Australodynerus merredinensis but Marco said "Australodynerus have short antennae and the last flagellomere is straight and conical, not surpassing base of F9". When Brian made a couple of suggestions, Marco said "Diemodynerus decipiens positus has a very different coloration with extensive red pattern on mesosoma, while D. saucius has T1 entirely black. This specimen seems to match Diemodynerus decipiens decipiens, but there are other species described more recently and I don't have descriptions of them. It's better to stay on genus." Please note we use the "cf" moniker to indicate "looks like". We use a lower level of id quality on our web site than on iNaturalist to help steer people in their own research. Similar Species: Orange-striped Potter Wasp (Acarodynerus sp) : Mud-nesting Wasp (Paralastor sp ES01) | |||||
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