White-jawed Weevil Wasp
S2, Female, ventral
Ellura
Black Sand-dauber Wasp
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Black Sand-dauber Wasp (Crabronidae sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae)
Species: Black Sand-dauber Wasp (Crabronidae sp)
This Photo:     Wings

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere
Thought this was Pison, but Susanna Heideman told us Pison have indented eyes, unlike this one. It's also similar to many on-line images of Tachysphex (but their eye indentations are all mixed). So suspect there is a lot of confusion with online photo's with these. As such, we've put it at family level.

Similar Species: Unid'ed Zebra Spider Wasp (Turneromyia sp ES01) : Small Zebra Spider Wasp (Ctenostegus sp)

Copyright © 2014-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 18-Feb-2014
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.