White-jawed Weevil Wasp
S2, Female, Wing Venation
Tricoloured Weevil Wasp
Male, dorsal
| White-jawed Weevil Wasp S2, Female, Wing Venation | | Tricoloured Weevil Wasp Male, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | White-jawed Weevil Wasp (Cerceris antipodes) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S2, Female, ventral🔎 | ||||
Thank you Kerri-Lee Harris for identifying and Milo van Loon for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long females. S1 was the 1st Cerceris we photographed, in her nest in the ground. We thought this was a Masked Bee (Hylaeus sp). We discovered the error when we caught & id'ed our 2nd specimen. Kerri said "This widespread species is highly variable in terms of colour, but the populations from southern Australia are often dark (as is this one). The shape of the mesopleuron, clypeus, petiole, propodeal enclosure all seem a match for C. antipodes." | |||||
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