Rounded Grasshopper Wasp
S1, Male, profile
Rounded Grasshopper Wasp
S1, Male, Head
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| Rounded Grasshopper Wasp S1, Male, profile | | Rounded Grasshopper Wasp S1, Male, Head | | ||
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: | Rounded Grasshopper Wasp (Prionyx globosus)| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Male, Wing Venation🔎 | Thank you (Fauna_Mirifica) for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~13mm long Male. Notice the 2 lobes on it's foot claws. Prionyx translates to "Saw Claws"; "Prion" = "Saw" & "onyx" = claw. When we asked Fauna_Mirifica what the differences were, they said "Submarginal cell 2 is rhomboid in Sphecini, but it is rectangular in Prionyx". "The "hairy" patches on the metasomal side are also not found in Sphex, and the body posture is different (legs are usually more spread out in Prionyx)." Another similar genus to Prionyx is Grass-carrying Wasps (Isodontia sp). On someone elses Isodontia observation (we haven't seen one) Fauna_Mirifica said "There are no Prionyx with body hair this long in the area, or they (Prionyx) have yellowish wings." Notice how short the body hair is with our specimen here.
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