Small Red Spider Wasp
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Small Red Spider Wasp (Psoropempula sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Spider Wasp (Wasp:Pompilidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Small Red Spider Wasp (Psoropempula sp)
This Photo:     🔍S4, Face & Antenna🔎
Thank you Sam Gordon (SamGordon) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10mm long.
Different species have different coloured legs.
There is a very similar species but with a red head, called a Redback Spider-hunting Wasp (Agenioideus nigricornis).
Iskander Kaliananda told us "Psoropempula are kleptoparasites ... instead of targeting the wasp larva, they utilise the spiders already caught and stored by the other Pompilid."
Copyright © 2022-2026 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 09-Nov-2022
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.