White-spotted Spider Wasp
Male, Masked Face
White-spotted Spider Wasp
Male, Leg Spines
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| White-spotted Spider Wasp Male, Masked Face | | White-spotted Spider Wasp Male, Leg Spines | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Zebra Spider Wasp (Wasp:Pompilidae:Pompilinae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | White-spotted Spider Wasp (Batozonellus sp ES01)| This Photo: | 🔍Male, Ocelli🔎 | 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 ~13mm long. Very unusual spider wasp. Black body, white spotted abdomen, red legs (trailing to black), orange antennae (also with black fading to the tips) & yellow masked face. As well as a yellow collar and smokey wings. Look at the huge leg spines. We think a male as we couldn't see an ovipositor and the sculptured antennae. Actually it has 11 flagellomeres, making it a definate male.
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