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Family Crabronidae
This page contains pictures and information about Black Sand-loving Wasps that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
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- The Black Sand-loving Wasp is entirely shiny black in colour.
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- We recognized the wasp in this tribe by the wing vein pattern.
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- The wasp has the hind ocelli modified, with
near-complete loss of the lens. The Orbits is straight (not emarginated).
From the reference information Tachysphex sp. is fossorial and preys
on Acrididae and the
related.
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- Reference:
- 1. Northern Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 2. Sphecidae - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks.
- 3. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p991, Fig42.42.
- 4. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p299.
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