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Masked Mud-nesting Wasp
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| Masked Mud-nesting Wasp S4, Female, dorsal, close | | Masked Mud-nesting Wasp S3, Male, profile | | ||
-nigrocinctum--Antenna.JPG "Masked Mud-nesting Wasp (Anterhynchium (Epiodynerus) nigrocinctum ssp nigrocinctum)") | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Potter Wasp (Wasp: Vespidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Masked Mud-nesting Wasp (Anterhynchium (Epiodynerus) nigrocinctum ssp nigrocinctum) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S2, Male, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Marco Selis for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Males ~12 to ~14mm long. Female ~17mm long, so larger. Females have 10 flagellomeres. The tip of the male antennae (the last segment) are turned back pointy affairs. There is a tiny segment (2nd from the end) that makes it 11 flagellomeres for the males (which almost all Apocrita have). The females are blunt ended. The genders can also be separated by the abdominal segment count; males with 7 & females with 6. Of those we've found the females have more of an orange face, where as the males have a very yellow face (specifically the clypeus (bottom plate), and bottom half of the frons (top plate)). We thought this was an Abispa sp. Marco said "Anterhynchium (Epiodynerus) nigrocinctum nigrocinctum is the complete name, as in Eastern Indonesia occurs the subspecies Anterhynchium nigrocinctum meraukense. The differences are very slight and involve only the extension of orange pattern, they are just variations in my opinion." Similar Species: Large Mud-nesting Wasp (Abispa ephippium) | |||||
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