Fidgety Sand Wasp: S1, Female, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Digging Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Fidgety Sand Wasp (Tachysphex sp ES04)

This Photo:

🔍S1, Female, dorsal🔎

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
~14mm long Female (10 flagellomeres).
Tachysphex rather than tachytes:
1. Not very pubescent
2. Pygidium (posterior around ovi-positor) almost hairless
3. Pointy abdomen
One female photographed in Feb

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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