Sighting 3391753
Black Digger Wasp at Deakin, ACT
Identification history
| Sphex cognata | 17 Mar 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Sphex cognata | 16 Mar 2018 | michael.batley | ||
| Lipotriches sp. (genus) | 23 Feb 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Feb 2018 | JackyF |
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User's notes
wasp-like insect about 12mm, prominent black and creamy stripes
3 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
18 Mar 2018
Spelling corrected to Sphex cognata.
We have sightings of Sphex species which have considerably better photos than this one. See
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/21678
Would you be able to ID some of them for us?
We have sightings of Sphex species which have considerably better photos than this one. See
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/21678
Would you be able to ID some of them for us?
michael.batley
wrote:
18 Mar 2018
Most of the images I looked at seemed to be S. cognatus, but another possibility is S. vestitus. Somebody more familiar with wasps than I am may be able to do better using Dörfel and Ohl 2015 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591716/pdf/zookeys-521-001.pdf). The gender of Sphex is male, so the specific part of the name should end in -us if it is an adjective.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
18 Mar 2018
Thanks Michael
Re the spelling, I should have said we align our names with ALA because we export our data to them, and they have Sphex cognata:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:115dba46-0725-4c43-b1a9-826353ec5a20
Re the spelling, I should have said we align our names with ALA because we export our data to them, and they have Sphex cognata:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:115dba46-0725-4c43-b1a9-826353ec5a20
Location information
- Coordinates 149.102696-35.326098
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Feb 2018 05:52 PM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae)
Additional information
- sitting still on grass seedhead over shallow water Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Sphex cognata Scientific name
- Black Digger Wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Sphex formosus
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
