Black & Orange Wasp: S1, Female, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black & Orange Wasp (Sphodrotes sp)

This Photo:

🔍S1, Female, dorsal🔎

Thank you Kerri-Lee Harris for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10mm long. A female as it has 10 flagellomeres.
Looks a lot like a bee. 1st indications it was a wasp were the lower antennae joins.
Kerri-Lee kindly quoted Bohart & Menke, 1976, for us saying this was a good match: "Inner orbits parallel or slightly converging below; 3 submarginal cells, second is petiolate; partially or totally red legs, gaster often extensively red; very coarse, dense punctation of entire body; genae broad, so head appears square"

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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