Sand Wasp Female, anterior, Digging | Sand Wasp Female, Digging a Trench | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Sand Wasp (Bembix sp ES01) | ||||
This Photo: | Female, posterior | ||||
Thank you Matt Campbell for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Females do the digging to lay their eggs, and so have digging spines on their front legs (specifically their tarsi which are the feet, the sections between the tibia & the claw). Each species apparantly makes a different pattern in the sand to cover/hide their nest. Kerri-Lee Harris said "The lack of obvious ocelli is confirmation of Bembix ... in other Bembicini they're well developed." | |||||
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