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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Scolioidea » Scoliid Wasps (Scoliidae) » Colpa » Colpa alcione
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Trielis octomaculata? - Colpa alcione - male
Copyright © 2010 nvhamlett@gmail.com

Trielis octomaculata? - Colpa alcione - Male
Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
August 7, 2010
This wasp was photographed at about 1:30 pm on California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) at the Claremont Colleges' Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station. I'm pretty confident that we don't have this wasp on our field station Invertebrate List, but I'm not sure what it is. I was wondering if it might be Trielis octomaculata -- it looks quite a bit like this photo. It doesn't, however, have the red color seen in that specimen, and I don't know how variable the color is.

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Trielis octomaculata? - Colpa alcione - male Trielis octomaculata? - Colpa alcione - male Trielis octomaculata? - Colpa alcione - male
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Contributed by nvhamlett@gmail.com on 29 August, 2010 - 12:07am
Last updated 23 October, 2010 - 11:08pm

Crioscolia alcione, male
The clavate antennae and coloration ID this one.

These are the first images of live males for the guide!

Moved from Scoliid Wasps.
… George Waldren, 23 October, 2010 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the ID!
Thank you so much! Now that I have the ID, I do see that it looks like this pinned specimen. Our other photos of this species were of females, and I didn't appreciate how different the males look. I'm glad the photos are a useful contribution.
… nvhamlett@gmail.com, 23 October, 2010 - 11:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Happy to help
The males of Campsomeris, Trielis and Crioscolia are often much different in shape and color than females. In Scolia, males and females are about the same size and have similar coloration.
… George Waldren, 24 October, 2010 - 1:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 4 September, 2010 - 10:34pm login or register to post comments

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