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common mud daubler
Sceliphron laetum (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Sceliphronini)

Status
Native to Australia

Dorsal view - female Zoomify

Caption: Australia: Brisbane, 1966.

Source: Lucinda Gibson & Ken Walker Museum Victoria

The genus Sceliphron comprises wasps in which the abdomen is very thinly stalked at the base. The body is marked with black and yellow and females make mud cells which they fill with spiders.

The genus is cosmospolitan, and has the following characters: 3rd maxillary palpomere swollen asymmetrically; female clypeal margin with 2 broad flat lobes separated by a small v-shaped notch; pronotum short, stigmatal groove absent; petiole more than 2x length of hind coxae; intersegmental membrane of tarsi with lamellate oval pads ventrally; front tarsal claws with only 1 tooth, middle tibiae with 2 apical spurs; 2nd submarginal cell trapezoidal, receiving both recurrent veins, hind win with a large vannal vein.

Sceliphron laetum body length c. 25mm; forewing span c. 30mm.

PaDIL Links:
mason wasp (Abispa splendida )
eumenine wasp (Delta arcuata)
spider hunting wasp (Heterodontonyx bicolor)
Asian paper wasp (Polistes chinensis antennalis)
European paper wasp (Polistes dominulus)
common paperwasp (Polistes humilis)
paper wasp (Ropalidia socialistica)
European wasp (Vespula germanica)
English wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

Specimen contact point: Museum Victoria

Citation: Walker, K. (2007) common mud daubler (Sceliphron laetum) Pest and Diseases Image Library. Updated on 2/22/2007 3:51:52 PM. Available online: http://www.padil.gov.au

Created Date: 2/21/2007 4:48:17 PM

Last Updated: 2/22/2007 3:51:52 PM

Diagnostic Images
Abdomen	Head Front	Thorax Above	Thorax Side
Overview Images
Dorsal	Lateral