Flame-colored Digger Wasp:

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Mud Dauber & Sand Wasp (Wasp: Sphecidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Flame-colored Digger Wasp (Sphex flammeus)

This Photo:

Thank you Fauna_Mirifica for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line
1st Record in Aust on Atlas:We thought this might be Sphex darwiniensis, it seemed closest to the 2015 paper describing Australian Sphex wasps. It wasn't a good photo, but so unusual we felt valuable to post.
Fauna_mirifica (from iNaturalist) is an expert on these saying "Tentative; propodeal pubescence looks very dense".

This species is

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

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