Description. Clypeus with medial glabrous stripe. Pubescence on scutum slightly denser laterally. Scutellum slightly convex, with shallow medial impression near posterior margin. Tubercles on metanotum distinct. Propodeal enclosure with three to four broad, continuous transverse ridges; propodeal pubescence not concealing sculpture. Tomentum moderately dense on metasomal terga I and II. Female: Body length 20.2 - 25.7 mm. Body black, but the following are orange: basal half of mandible, clypeus, scape, pedicel, parts of flagellomere I, scutellum, metanotum, petiole, metasomal segment I, anterior two thirds of metasomal segment II, legs excluding claw teeth and distal half of claw. Wing membrane with yellow tinge and markedly fuscous band at apex. Wing veins orange, dark near apex. Forebasitarsal rake with nine long spines. Free clypeal margin conspicuously notched medially, bulging above. Appressed pubescence and erect setae on clypeus and frons golden. Distance between hind- ocelli 0.7 x their shortest distance to compound eyes. Pubescence on mesosoma golden. Length of petiole 1.4 x length of flagellomere II. Male: Body length 16.8 - 23.6 mm. Wing membrane largely hyaline, with slight yellow tinge around costal cell. Forewing with faint fuscous band at apex. Wing veins dark brown to orange. Free clypeal margin concave towards center. Appressed pubescence and erect setae on clypeus and frons silvery-white. Distance between hind- ocelli nearly equal to their shortest distance to compound eyes. Pubescence on mesosoma silvery. Length of petiole 1.6 x- 1.7 x length of flagellomere II. Metasomal terga V and VI with few silvery bristles. Metasomal sterna II-VIII largely glabrous. Metasomal sternum VIII entire, its lateral margin sometimes slightly concave.
Sumber: A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)