Orange-striped Potter Wasp
S1, Dead, Face
Orange-striped Potter Wasp
S1, Dead, Wing venation
| Orange-striped Potter Wasp S1, Dead, Face | | Orange-striped Potter Wasp S1, Dead, Wing venation | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Potter Wasp (Wasp: Vespidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Orange-striped Potter Wasp (Acarodynerus sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S4, Female, Face🔎 | ||||
Thank you Marco Selis & Brian Dagley for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~13mm - 14mm long Our 1st specimen was found dead & desicated outside. We thought this was a paralastor wasp, but the wing venation doesn't much (ie the 2nd sub-marginal cell isn't petiolate) Colour wise this is similar to Pseudalastor concolor, as linked to by Brian. Milo van Loon indicated the Pseudalastor genera have toothed mid-femurs. After inspection of the original photo's we found this specimen is free of toothed mid-femurs. We've since captured 3 more live ones. Our 4th, shown here, is a female (as it has 10 flagellomeres). As can be seen her length is variable as the abdomen can constrict considerably. The size of the red spot on the face varies a bit between specimens, being tiny here. While not clearly seen, the inside legs have a pale reddish stripe. A couple of shots of S4 are quite yellow. This isn't real, it's orange; a camera artifact from overexposure. We've photographed 4 in Feb & Mar. | |||||
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