Thread-waisted Wasp
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Mud Dauber & Sand Wasp (Wasp: Sphecidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Thread-waisted Wasp (Ammophila sp)| This Photo: | Profile, in the wild | Thank you Bernhard Jacobi for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~28mm long. These have been considered to be Parapsammophila eremophila for a while. However, we were concerned that there were two different forms; one with black feet and one (like here) with orange feet. We found the original description only to find it's described as "Entirely Black", with different wing colour, etc. Also, it was only known from near Alice Springs, and was shorter at 24-25mm. As such, taken the original descriptions genus, as well as Bernhard's suggestion, and id'ed this one as Ammophila sp. Hopefully one day a species name might be found for them.
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