Sighting 4524343
Sand wasp at Molonglo Valley, ACT
Identification history
| Austrogorytes bellicosus | 6 Mar 2025 | DiBickers | ||
| Crabronidae (family) | 6 Mar 2025 | DiBickers | ||
| Lasioglossum (Australictus) tertium | 8 Nov 2023 | SimoneC | ||
| Unidentified | 6 Nov 2023 | SteveBorkowskis |
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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
michael.batley
wrote:
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
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SteveBorkowskis NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Additional information
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- False Pollinator Insect on Flower
- False Wasp nest present
Species information
- Crabronidae (family) Scientific name
- Sand wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 756m Recorded at altitude
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