Yellow-antennae Black Spider Wasp: Flying

Yellow-antennae Black Spider Wasp (Fabriogenia sp ES01)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Spider Wasp (Wasp: Pompilidae)

Species:

Yellow-antennae Black Spider Wasp (Fabriogenia sp ES01)

This Photo:

Flying

Synonym:

Auplopus

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
~9mm long, ~17mm wingspan.
Very thick, obvious, yellow antennae that often curl at the tips.
The wings are light & dark striped, but transparent.
The body looks similar to the zebra spider wasp in that it has silvery grey stripes, but these are hairs not body colour.
There are only 3 fabriogenia sp described in Australia, and we have 3 different species here; but which is which or if all of ours are undescribed we can't say.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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