SphexSphex corporosus Sphex rhodosoma
Sphex corporosus, a member of Thread-waisted Wasps family Sphecidae. The Sphex genus are commonly known as Digger Wasps.
The Sphex corporosus pictured here was recovered deceased (with a missing antennae) from a swimming pool in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. When first retrieved from the salt pool water, it was quite dark, almost black with white markings and hairs. Originally ID only to genus Sphex, further feedback (see footnote) identified it to Sphex corporosus.3
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Apoidea
- Informal: Spheciformes
- Family: Sphecidae
- Subfamily: Sphecinae
- Genus: Sphex
- Species: Sphex corporosus
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Kimberi Pullen for ID, member of Entomology Australia “Invertebratology”, https://www.facebook.com/groups/507004496955277/
- Many thanks to Iskander Kaliananda and Dane Jensen for ID, member of Australian Polistinae and other Hymenoptera, https://www.facebook.com/groups/188453645581988
- Sphex corporosus, ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/253996021
- Sphex corporosus Dörfel & Ohl, 2015, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Sphex corporosus
- Sphex Linnaeus, 1758, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Sphex
SphexSphex corporosus Sphex rhodosoma
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