Yellow-faced Black Sand Wasp Male, Face | Yellow-faced Black Sand Wasp Male, Pseudo-stinger | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Square-headed Wasp (Wasp: Crabronidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Yellow-faced Black Sand Wasp (Bembix sp ES06) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Male, Labrum & Mandibles🔎 | ||||
Thank you Milo van Loon for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~16mm long. Notice the front of the legs are the typical yellow Bembix colour, as does the face; the clypeus (upper) & labrum (lower) in particular. The pattern on the abdomen is not hair colour, but pigmentation in the body, as per other Bembix. Also notice the way the the mandibles wrap the face and finally the wing venation is consistent. | |||||
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