Amegilla that kept returning to extract something from fox or dog faeces at Borroloola NT
Feeding on Centrosema pubescens aka Mexican butterfly-pea.
Happy to be corrected on the ID :)
On top of water
About .5cm in body length
Appendages out the back about 1cm long
Per key by Dean (1999)- horns with no spines except tubercle at base, four rows of black patches dorsally with no black midline, clear black ventral midline (some fading from preservation)
P. hypodelum per key by Webb & Suter (2011)- no gill on first ab segment, dorsal pattern, thin femora, single row of dorsal femoral spines, labrum unspined, location
Wundacaenis dostini per key of Suter (1999). Lateral projections on anterior of mesothorax distinct, non-angulate; no projections on hind coxae; longitudinal (rather than transverse) row of setae on foreleg femora