Podalonia tydei

Caterpillar-hunter wasp at Wodonga, VIC

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Identification history

Podalonia tydei	9 May 2025	DiBickers
Ctenochares bicolorus	2 Feb 2021	MichaelMulvaney
Ctenochares bicolorus	17 Dec 2020	KylieWaldon
Unverified	9 Dec 2020	KylieWaldon

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Wasp? Fly? not sure what it was. But it was quick. Very much dark red and black in colour.

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DiBickers wrote:

9 May 2025

The shape of the face; the silvery-grey around the sides of the thorax (the black on the top of thorax is balding); the orange-coloured translucent wings; & the predominantly burnt-orange abdomen with black tip look very much like the Tyde’s Sand Wasp (Podalonia tydei).

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Sighting information

1 Abundance
9 Dec 2020 11:30 AM Recorded on
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KylieWaldon NatureMapr Albury, Wodonga Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects

Species information

Podalonia tydei Scientific name
Caterpillar-hunter wasp Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1693.3m Recorded at altitude
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