Tuatara: Volume 24, Issue 1, October 1979
Plate 1: The black hunting wasp, Salius monachus. This individual of 18 mm body length was captured on Johnson's Hill, Karori, Wellington. The burrow shown in plate 2 was the work of this particular wasp. Even though the red hunting wasp Salius wakefieldi may also capture tunnel web spiders, the black wasp is normally responsible for most captures of these spiders
Plate 1: The black hunting wasp, Salius monachus. This individual of 18 mm body length was captured on Johnson's Hill, Karori, Wellington. The burrow shown in plate 2 was the work of this particular wasp. Even though the red hunting wasp Salius wakefieldi may also capture tunnel web spiders, the black wasp is normally responsible for most captures of these spiders.