Sighting 4524343
Crabronidae (family)
Sand wasp at Molonglo Valley, ACT
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| Austrogorytes bellicosus | DiBickers | 6 Mar 2025 | |
| Crabronidae (family) | DiBickers | 6 Mar 2025 | |
| Lasioglossum (Australictus) tertium | SimoneC | 8 Nov 2023 | |
| Unverified | SteveBorkowskis | 6 Nov 2023 |
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User's notes
This wasp was hovering low to the ground, and took a while to settle, but only briefly. I assume it was looking for prey.
1 comment
8 Nov 2023
I think this really is a wasp. L. tertium has orange only on the 'shoulders' not right across pronotum, it has hair bands on the front end of abdominal segments while this species looks to have yellow integument on the rear end and T1 is much narrower than the following segment which is not true of L. tertium.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.065506-35.282064
- Altitude 589.7m
- Maps National Arboretum Woodland
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 6 Nov 2023 01:31 PM Recorded on
- SteveBorkowskis Recorded by
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- No Insect on a flower
- No Nest present
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- SteveBorkowskis NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Crabronidae (family) Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Species information
- Crabronidae (family) Scientific name
- Sand wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 769m Recorded at altitude
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