Like other members of this genus, it is a solitary species and builds cells out of mud in which to rear its young, provisioning them with paralysed spiders, and laying an egg in each.

It lacks an area of bare yellow skin on the lower part of the face which is present in the otherwise similar Sceliphron formosum.

The egg is frequently laid on a species of Argiope or Neoscona, but these spiders only constituted a small percentage of the total prey collected.

The spiny orb-weaver (Gasteracantha) was the most frequently used spider in the later stages of provisioning the cell, but the egg was seldom laid on this species.

The researchers hypothesized that the egg was laid on a comparatively soft-bodied species and that the tough spiny abdomen of Gasteracantha would be difficult for an early instar wasp larva to tackle.