Spotted Hairy Flower Wasp: In Melaleuca

Spotted Hairy Flower Wasp (Australelis anthracina)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Hairy Flower Wasp (Wasp: Scoliidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Spotted Hairy Flower Wasp (Australelis anthracina)

This Photo:

In Melaleuca

Thank you Joseph (CobalJoseph) for identifying and Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Record for this family in SA on Atlas:
Females have shorter antennae than the males, and the males seem to be smaller.
We thought this was Laeviscolia frontalis (for over 5 years!) until Joseph came to the rescue and explained to us on iNat the differences.

This species is

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

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