Brown Wasp - ? sp.

Family SPHECIDAE 

This page contains pictures and information about Brown Wasp that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 15mm
 
This wasp is relatively small as a Spider Wasp. It has the brown thorax and legs. Its head is Golden-brown in colour. 
 
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Dec 2006 in Karawatha Forest, we saw a small wasp moving a spider. The spider was slightly larger than the wasp. The wasp was pulling the spider and moving quite fast on ground. 
 
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We following the wasp and saw it move the spider to a place at the bottom of a large tree trunk.
 
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The wasp hided the spider in a small cavity. The spider look like some ground-hunting spider but we can not identify the spider.
 
 
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We found this wasp a few times in Karawatha Forest, which always searching on the floor.
Reference:
1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 975.
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Last updated: October 23, 2007.