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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pompilinae » Pompilini » Blue-black Spider Wasps (Anoplius) » Subgenus Arachnophroctonus (Anoplius Subgenus Arachnophroctonus) » Anoplius americanus » Anoplius americanus trifasciatus
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Unknnown Pompilidae - Anoplius americanus
Copyright © 2007 Scott Nelson

Unknnown Pompilidae - Anoplius americanus
Lakeland, Polk County, Florida, USA
July 21, 2007
Size: 19 mm
Looks like an Anoplius but I cannot be certain. I will have to have someone more knowledgeable than me to ID.

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Contributed by Scott Nelson on 22 July, 2007 - 3:33pm
Last updated 23 July, 2007 - 7:38am

Moved
Moved from Blue-Black Spider Wasps.
… Nick Fensler, 23 July, 2007 - 7:38am login or register to post comments

Anoplius americanus trifasciatus
The bristles on the pygidium were evident in the other shot...good call.
… Nick Fensler, 22 July, 2007 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Nick
thanks for the ID. I was hoping you'd see these and weigh in. BG has no page for these and I am not an editor so for now I have moved them to the genus level pages.
… Scott Nelson, 23 July, 2007 - 7:17am login or register to post comments

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