Small Red Spider Wasp S3, Wing Bands | Small Red Spider Wasp S2, anterior | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Spider Wasp (Wasp: Pompilidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Small Red Spider Wasp (Psoropempula sp) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S4, Wing Venation & Rear Leg🔎 | ||||
Thank you Sam Gordon for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long. Different species have different coloured legs. There is a very similar species but with a red head, called a Redback Spider-hunting Wasp (Agenioideus nigricornis). Iskander Kaliananda told us "Psoropempula are kleptoparasites ... instead of targeting the wasp larva, they utilise the spiders already caught and stored by the other Pompilid." | |||||
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