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Family POMPILIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Yellow Antenna Black Spider
Wasp that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

- Body length 20mm
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- This wasp is common in Brisbane Eucalyptus forests. It is black in colour
with yellow antenna. We usually see it flying and examining among tree
trunks.
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- In late summer we saw this wasp on a dead tree trunk. It spent a lot of
time checking each hole on the dead tree trunk. We believed those holes were
made by the beetle larvae. The wasp was looking for those larvae, if found,
will bring back to its nest for its young.
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- The wasp check every holes. For some holes, the wasp went inside and
spent tens of seconds inside. We watched it for a few minutes, it had no
luck and could not find any yet.
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- Just captured a spider outside our house. .
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- Oct 2009 in Carbrook Wetland
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- The Spider Wasp was examining a Jumping
Spider's retreat on a gum tree trunk.
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- Here we would like to thank Professor Denis Brothers
sending us email advised that this wasp is in the POMPILIDAE family.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 975.
- 2. What wasp is that? - An interactive identification guide to the Australasian families of Hymenoptera, 2007.
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