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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
	Family:	Spider Wasp (Wasp: Pompilidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Orange Spider Wasp (Cryptocheilus sp ES01)
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	General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere Mainly black wasp with bright orange head, tail, feelers & legs. Again has 3 purple jewels (actually Ocelli, simple eyes) on its head. These need revision, as they don't have modern diagnostics. As such, we can only really go to genus. Everyone tends to put them under Cryptocheilus bicolor, but some have black tipped wings, other don't. We don't know the sizes of the specimens in the various on-line photo's, which is generally pretty important.
	Copyright © 2015-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 29-Dec-2015
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.