Potter Wasp: Rhynchium haemorrhoidale Caught Caterpillar - Tawon Menangkap Ulat

Potter wasps (or mason wasps) are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae.

I found these potter wasps, species Rhynchium haemorrhoidale, in the backyard. They're flying around looking for caterpillar.

I feel lucky to get these photos. I've tried for a few days to take pictures of wasps which were catching caterpillar with no results. The wasps were always moving and almost never still in quite some time. But then something very exciting happens, a wasp catch the caterpillar right in front of me which at the time I'm ready with my camera phone. So I instantly shoot before the wasp flew away.

Scientific Classification of Potter Wasp: Rhynchium haemorrhoidale - Tawon

Domain Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 – eukaryotes / lifeforms with nucletic cells

Kingdom Animalia C. Linnaeus, 1758 – animals

Subkingdom Bilateria (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 – bilaterians

Branch Protostomia Grobben, 1908 – protostomes

Infrakingdom Ecdysozoa A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans

Superphylum Panarthropoda Cuvier

Phylum Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 – arthropods

Subphylum Mandibulata Snodgrass, 1938

Infraphylum Atelocerata Heymons, 1901

Superclass Panhexapoda

Class Insecta C. Linnaeus, 1758 – insects

Subclass Dicondylia

Infraclass Pterygota - winged Insects

Superorder Hymenopterida

Order Hymenoptera C. Linnaeus, 1758 - ants, bees, and wasps

Suborder Apocrita

Superfamily Vespoidea

Family Vespidae Linnaeus, 1771 – wasps

Subfamily Eumeninae - Potter wasps

Genus Rhynchium Spinola, 1806

Species R. haemorrhoidale

Botanical/Scientific name: Rhynchium haemorrhoidale (Fabricius, 1775)

references:

• www.fobi.web.id/v/insect/f-ves/rhy-hae
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_wasp
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhynchium
• Scientific Classification in Biology
• www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id549829/
• zipcodezoo.com/Animals/R/Rhynchium_haemorrhoidale/ 

Photos of  Potter Wasp: Rhynchium haemorrhoidale Caught Caterpillar – Tawon menangkap Ulat were taken using a camera phone Sony Ericsson K800i in the backyard in Jonggol, West Java, Indonesia.

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