Black Sand-loving Wasp Female, dorsal | Black Sand-loving Wasp Female, Wing Venation | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Black Sand-loving Wasp (Tachytes sp ES01) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Female, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Milo van Loon for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 2nd Record in SA on Atlas: ~10mm long. These wasps characteristically have green eyes. Tachytes parasitise Grasshoppers/Katydids (Orthoptera) & Mantids (Mantodea). The size difference between this & ES02, below, will be related to the size of their prey. | |||||
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