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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 » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Larrini » Gastrosericina » Tachytes » Tachytes grisselli
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bee4 - Tachytes grisselli - male
Copyright © 2009 David Almquist

bee4 - Tachytes grisselli - Male
Tiger Creek Preserve, Polk County, Florida, USA
January 30, 2009

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Contributed by David Almquist on 1 February, 2009 - 2:55am
Last updated 2 February, 2009 - 11:35am

Male
Antenna features are useful to separate aurulentus from grisselli in this group with red-based mandibles and hairy hindfemurs. This certainly appears to have the very convex early antennal segments. As far as I know, grisselli is only known from Florida, so should not be confusing elsewhere.
… Herschel Raney, 3 February, 2009 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

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Moved from Tachytes aurulentus. I checked with the literature, and it turns out to be T. grisselli. Please do not move images to a species page based on "possibly". "Possibly" indicates one among different options and is not a positive ID.
… Matthias Buck, 2 February, 2009 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

Tachytes, male (FL)
Possibly T. aurulentus. A digger wasp.
… Matthias Buck, 1 February, 2009 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

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