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Covered-cell Mud-dauber Wasp

Sceliphron laetum

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 192, February 160, March 100, April 45, May 18, June 15, July 10, August 16, September 18, October 28, November 58, December 116.
Australia776
New South Wales232
Queensland178
Victoria144
South Australia114
Northern Territory48
Western Australia43
Australian Capital Territory17
Guam12
United States1

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Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyThread-waisted Wasps · Sphecidae
GenusBlack-and-yellow Mud-dauber Wasps · Sceliphron

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