Orange-tailed Digger Wasp
S1, Female, Wing Venation
Rounded Grasshopper Wasp
S1, Male, dorsal
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| Orange-tailed Digger Wasp S1, Female, Wing Venation | | Rounded Grasshopper Wasp S1, Male, dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Mud Dauber & Sand Wasp (Wasp:Sphecidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Orange-tailed Digger Wasp (Podalonia tydei ssp suspiciosa)| This Photo: | S3, Male, Wing Venation | Other name: | Tyde's Sand Wasp | Thank you Stephen Fricker & Anthony Paul for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere Females was ~17mm long, the males ~20mm. The wing venation is the same, as best as we can tell, but there are some differences that we have put down to gender. Bold has 3 images of this species, showing the same variations as here. She had very hairy front legs, perhaps for digging her nest? She also seemed to have a shorter waist.
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