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Two-colored Orange Spider Wasp
Heterodontonyx bicolor
Heterodontonyx bicolor (orange spider wasp) is a large, strikingly coloured spider wasp from Australia.
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Description
The body ranges from 20 to 40 mm in length. The head, legs, and antenna are black and orange-yellow in colour, with dark brown to black thorax and eyes. The wings are orange with darkened bases and apices, and the abdomen is orange with the first segment and a band on the second segment black. H. bicolor is similar in coloration to several allied species found in Australia but is usually distinguishable by the broad black band on the second segment of the abdomen. It is further distinguished by the combination of a pair of developed tubercles on each side of the propodeum and a broad clypeus.
Wikipedia: “Description and identification”
Range & habitat
H. bicolor is native across most of Australia. It has also been introduced to New Zealand. Additional records come from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1635762.