White-jawed Weevil Wasp
S2, Female, ventral
Tricoloured Weevil Wasp
Male, profile
| White-jawed Weevil Wasp S2, Female, ventral | | Tricoloured Weevil Wasp Male, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Tricoloured Weevil Wasp (Cerceris armigera) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Male, dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Kerri-Lee Harris for identifying, Brian Dagley for confirming 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 ~8mm long. Notice the extra abdominal segment of the male here compared with the other female Cerceris sp. Males have 7 abdominal segments, females have 6 (the petiole is included in this segment count). Highly respected friends of ours over at the "Life in a Southern Forest" web site have set up this amazing "worksheet" to help people identify their Cerceris wasps: Cerceris Identification | |||||
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