Black Sand-loving Wasp
Female, profile
Black Sand-loving Wasp
Female, Face
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| Black Sand-loving Wasp Female, profile | | Black Sand-loving Wasp Female, Face | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Square-headed Wasp (Wasp:Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Black Sand-loving Wasp (Tachytes sp ES01)| This Photo: | Female, Wing Venation | Thank you Milo van Loon for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 2nd Record in SA on Atlas: ~10mm long. These wasps characteristically have green eyes. Tachytes parasitise Grasshoppers/Katydids (Orthoptera) & Mantids (Mantodea). The size difference between this & ES02, below, will be related to the size of their prey.
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