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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae)

Family Sphecidae - Thread-waisted Wasps

Ammophilinae · Chloriontinae · Sceliphrinae · Sphecinae

Subfamily Ammophilinae
Pollen-faced wasp - Ammophila Mating Wasps - Eremnophila aureonotata - male - female Unidentified Wasp - Ammophila Spider wasp? - Podalonia Thread-waisted Wasp - Eremnophila aureonotata Cutworm Wasp - Podalonia Eremnophila aureonotata Thread-waisted wasp on - Ammophila

Subfamily Chloriontinae
Cricket Hunter Wasp - Chlorion aerarium - female Black bug 01 - Chlorion aerarium Cricket hunter wasp - Chlorion aerarium - female Chlorion wasp - Chlorion aerarium Sphecid? Chlorion aerarium? - Chlorion aerarium Blue Spider Wasp - Chlorion aerarium - female blue wasp - Chlorion aerarium Chlorion aerarium - female

Subfamily Sceliphrinae
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber - Sceliphron caementarium Mud dauber - Sceliphron caementarium but which thread-waisted wasp? - Sceliphron caementarium Id help needed - wasp - Sceliphron caementarium Sceliphron caementarium - male Sceliphron caementarium - Male behavior - Sceliphron caementarium - male Invasive Mud Dauber - Sceliphron curvatum - female Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp - Chalybion californicum - male

Subfamily Sphecinae
Palmodes? - Palmodes Grass Carrying Wasp - Isodontia ID for a big black wasp? - Isodontia philadelphica Black thread-waisted wasp - Prionyx Sphecodes? or wasp? - Prionyx Black wasp 7231 & 7237 & 7243 - Prionyx - female Sphex dorsalis? - Sphex dorsalis Elegant Grass-carrying Wasp - Isodontia elegans - Isodontia elegans


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