Black Sand-dauber Wasp
Dead, Face
Black Sand-dauber Wasp
Dead, Profile
| Black Sand-dauber Wasp Dead, Face | | Black Sand-dauber Wasp Dead, Profile | | ||
 | 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: | Dead, Abdomen | ||||
EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: The white bands in this photo aren't right. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1) poor thing drowned in our hand wash bowl. We don't like photographing dead things, however, it's an oportunity to get close, get sizes, etc. 2) the wings are causing a shadow from the flash. As such, the white bands go all the way round, but here it looks like they stop. As such, I couldn't photograph the abdomen properly without cutting the wings off, which I didn't think of then. 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) | |||||
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