Black & Orange Wasp
S1, Female, profile
Black & Orange Wasp
S1, Female, Wing Venation
| Black & Orange Wasp S1, Female, profile | | Black & Orange Wasp S1, Female, Wing Venation | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Digging Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Black & Orange Wasp (Sphodrotes sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Female, Iso-view🔎 | ||||
Thank you Kerri-Lee Harris for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long. A female as it has 10 flagellomeres. Looks a lot like a bee. 1st indications it was a wasp were the lower antennae joins. Kerri-Lee kindly quoted Bohart & Menke, 1976, for us saying this was a good match: "Inner orbits parallel or slightly converging below; 3 submarginal cells, second is petiolate; partially or totally red legs, gaster often extensively red; very coarse, dense punctation of entire body; genae broad, so head appears square" One female found in Feb. | |||||
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