the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > super family Sphecoidea or family Sphecidae > member of genus Sceliphron (mud-dauber) (2)
(a) U.S. = mud-dauber, n. 1; (b) Australian = mason wasp n. at mason, n.1 compounds 2.
Any of various solitary wasps, esp. of the family Sphecidae, that deposit their eggs, together with paralysed live prey, in cells made of mud. Also…