Yellow-shouldered Hairy Flower Wasp
S1, Male, Face
Yellow-shouldered Hairy Flower Wasp
S1, Male, Shoulder
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| Yellow-shouldered Hairy Flower Wasp S1, Male, Face | | Yellow-shouldered Hairy Flower Wasp S1, Male, Shoulder | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Hairy Flower Wasp (Wasp:Scoliidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Yellow-shouldered Hairy Flower Wasp (Laeviscolia frontalis ssp frontalis)| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Male, Eye🔎 | Thank you 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 This male as ~20mm long. Only Males have the yellow shoulders (pronotum), while the females have a yellow stripe on along the top of the head (vertex). Note the emarginate eyes, diagnostic of this family. Very hard to see though, being totally black face & eyes (with a thin yellow stripe behind each eye).
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