Alice Springs Fauna •
Alice Springs WaspsAbispa ephippium Agriomyia maculata Bembicinae Bethylidae Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Cryptocheilus Cryptocheilus bicolor Delta latreillei Delta philantes Eumeninae Fabriogenia sp Liris (Wasp) Mutillidae Mud Nests and Potter Wasps Orchid Dupe Wasp Paralastor (Potter Wasp) Pison Pseudabispa bicolor ssp. nigrocinctoides Sceliphron laetum Sphex (Wasp) Thynnid Flower Wasps Velvet Ants Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp (Radumeris radula) Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp (Radumeris tasmaniensis)
Pictured here is a Fabriogenia sp., a spider hunting wasp, family Pompilidae. One of the few types of Pompilids that construct mud nests.
Also described as Auplopus (synonym Fabriogenia Banks, 1941), is a large genus of spider wasps within the subfamily Pepsinae of the Spider Wasp family Pompilidae. The Auplopus wasps are known for amputating the legs of their spider prey before taking them back to their nests.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Vespoidea
- Family: Pompilidae
- Subfamily: Pepsinae
- Genus: Fabriogenia
- Species:
- Fabriogenia consociata (Turner, 1910)
- Fabriogenia fusiformis (Saussure, 1867)
- Fabriogenia incompta Banks, 1941
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Dane Jensen for ID, member of Australian Polistinae and other Hymenoptera, https://www.facebook.com/groups/188453645581988/
- Genus Fabriogenia, ausemade observation, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/262374123
- Fabriogenia Banks, 1941, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Fabriogenia
- Genus Fabriogenia, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/428285-Fabriogenia
Alice Springs WaspsAbispa ephippium Agriomyia maculata Bembicinae Bethylidae Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Cryptocheilus Cryptocheilus bicolor Delta latreillei Delta philantes Eumeninae Fabriogenia sp Liris (Wasp) Mutillidae Mud Nests and Potter Wasps Orchid Dupe Wasp Paralastor (Potter Wasp) Pison Pseudabispa bicolor ssp. nigrocinctoides Sceliphron laetum Sphex (Wasp) Thynnid Flower Wasps Velvet Ants Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp (Radumeris radula) Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp (Radumeris tasmaniensis)
Alice Springs FaunaAlice Springs Native Bees Alice Springs Beetles Alice Springs Birds Alice Springs Gastropods (Gastropoda) Alice Springs Insects Alice Springs Marsupials Alice Springs Reptiles Alice Springs Spiders
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Bougainvillea Apple Bush Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
