![]() | Thread-waisted Crabronid Wasp S1, Female, Face | Thread-waisted Crabronid Wasp S1, Female, Stance | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | Thread-waisted Crabronid Wasp (Podagritus sp)This Photo: | 🔍S1, Female, Waist🔎 | Thank you Milo van Loon & Kerri-Lee Harris for confirming and Dr Ben Parslow for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~7mm long. When we asked Kerri-Lee why she thought this was a female she said "Just 10 segments in the flagellum (cf 11 in males); and just 6 visible segments in the abdomen (cf 7 in males). That rule works for most (but not all) crabronids."
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