Unknown Sphecid Wasps
This page contains pictures and information about Wasps in family Sphecidae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- We believed the wasps listed in this page are in the family Sphecidae. However, we cannot further identify them. Please advise if you know what wasps they are.
- Unknown
Sphecid Wasp
- ? sp. ,body length 15mm
- Pictures taken in Daisy Hill near Buhot Creek on Dec 2008. The wasp was examining the mud wall, could be trying to collect some mud.
- Also found this wasp on Dec 2009 in Anstead Forest.
- This look like a Vespid wasp but its eyes is not emarginated and its fore wings not folded longitudinally. From its wing veins we believed it is a Sphecid Wasp.
- Reference:
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 991.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p299.
