Black & Yellow Flower Wasp Anterior | Black & Yellow Flower Wasp Dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Flower Wasp (Wasp: Thynnidae: Thynninae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Black & Yellow Flower Wasp (Aeolothynnus cf sp ES03) | ||||
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Other name: | Black and Yellow Flower Wasp | ||||
Thank you Dr Graham Brown for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere A medium, hairy wasp of ~10mm. Note the totally black head and green eyes, but very similar shape and body markings to A. sp ES02. We thought it looked Bembix like and Graham said "Bembix always stouter and certainly larger than Aeolothynnus". This highlights the need to get size information with photographs. | |||||
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