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Wasp ID Request - Caliadurgus hyalinatus - male

Wasp ID Request - Caliadurgus hyalinatus - Male
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
August 31, 2009
Observed searching the leaves of Phytolacca americana.

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Wasp ID Request - Caliadurgus hyalinatus - male Wasp ID Request - Caliadurgus hyalinatus - male

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Caliadurgus hyalinatus...
male.

 
You're kidding?!
Wow! Never would have come close to that genus. LOL! Thanks for the enlightenment.

 
I would have...
first identified it as Ageniella based on the white tibial spurs, had I not come across a large series of these at the OSU collection. I had been assuming that since it has white tibial spurs that it was an Ageniella and it thus keyed to Ageniella arizonica. Townes makes no mention of this character in his keys for Caliadurgus, so when my ID didn't make sense I started looking at species descriptions. The species description matched C. hyalinatus exactly, but never really fit any of the Ageniella. Then I compared it to ID'd museum specimens and it was a perfect match. Many of the pepsine males are difficult because Townes never used any genitalia characters like Evans did...one more reason why we need a revision on this group.

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Interesting.
My initial thought was an ichneumon, but the more I look at this the more convinced I am that it is a spider wasp. The white tibial spurs should easily place it, but I'm baffled....

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