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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
	Family:	Spider Wasp (Wasp: Pompilidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	White-spotted Spider Wasp (Batozonellus sp ES01)
	This Photo:	🔍Male, dorsal, Wings Open🔎
	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.
	Copyright © 2022-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 03-Dec-2022
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.