Square-headed & Bicolored (ventral)

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Square-headed & Bicolored (ventral) -

Tonopah Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
June 8, 2015
Size: 10mm

These are shots of a Square-headed Wasp that might be a male in the genus Tachytes or Tachysphex. We can see a sub-basal ventral depression on the fore-femora, in some of the shots. (maybe a member of the Tachytes-abdominalis-group)
If I key this guy in the Tachytes-abdominalis-group, this should be a male Tachytes abdominalis. Compare with the female specimen identified by DNA, on the BOLDSYSTEMS website: here
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Square-headed & Bicolored (ventral) - male

Square-headed & Bicolored (ventral head) - male

Square-headed & Bicolored (lateral) - male

Square-headed & Bicolored (wings) - male

Square-headed & Bicolored (thorax side) - male

Square-headed & Bicolored (dorsal) - male

Square-headed & Bicolored (side angle) - male

Contributed by Bob Biagi on 4 May, 2017 - 1:33pm
Last updated 21 September, 2022 - 2:13pm

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