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Bembix americana spinolae (Crabronidae) in Colorado Springs - Bembix americana - female
Copyright © 2005 Adalbert Goertz

Bembix americana spinolae (Crabronidae) in Colorado Springs - Bembix americana - Female
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
July 28, 2005
Size: L = 18 mm
Found on Cirsium arvense - Canada Thistle.

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Bembix americana spinolae (Crabronidae) in Colorado Springs - Bembix americana - female Bembix americana spinolae (Crabronidae) in Colorado Springs - Bembix americana - female
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Contributed by Adalbert Goertz on 31 July, 2005 - 10:49pm
Last updated 9 January, 2008 - 6:57am

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Moved from Adalbert's Colorado Images.
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 10 May, 2007 - 10:59pm login or register to post comments

name
I found distribution data on the subspecies Bembix americana spinolae (see Guide page), but no info on the web of a genus named Epibembix (nor Epibembex, a presumed misspelling).
… Robin McLeod, 1 August, 2005 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

 
Epibembex
The Synoptic Catalog of 1951, page 1000,used that genus.
… Adalbert Goertz, 1 August, 2005 - 12:23pm login or register to post comments

which subfamily?
happy to create species page and place this accordingly, but what's the higher-level classification of this within the Sphecidae?

couldn't find any internet resources to help.
… Ethan Friedman, 1 August, 2005 - 5:12am login or register to post comments

 
Nyssoninae?
Pretty sure Bembicines are in the Nyssoninae. This specimen may be a different species. Individual populations vary greatly in color patterns.
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 August, 2005 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Epibembex
The bembicines are currently classified in the Crabronidae, as are most groups we used to consider to be sphecids. They have their own subfamily, tribe and subtribe named for the genus Bembix. The proper spelling is "Epibembex," as originally described by Minkiewicz in a Polish journal in 1934. I have a specimen of spinolae identified by Karl Krombien in 1952, and he placed it in Epibembex, but I'm not familiar with the currently-accepted arrangement.
… beck123, 8 February, 2007 - 2:46pm login or register to post comments

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