Orange-tailed Digger Wasp S3, Male, Wing Venation | Rounded Grasshopper Wasp S1, Male, profile | |||||
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, dorsal🔎 | ||||
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. | |||||
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