White-spotted Spider Wasp Male, Masked Face | White-spotted Spider Wasp Male, Leg Spines | |||||
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 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 ovi-positor and the sculptured antennae. Actually it has 11 flagellomeres, making it a definate male. | |||||
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