Black Sand-loving Wasp
Female, Face
Ellura
Black Sand-loving Wasp
Female, ventral
 
                      
Black Sand-loving Wasp (Tachytes sp ES01)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, Head🔎

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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This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.