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Species Pseudomasaris coquilletti

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Vespidae (Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies)
Subfamily Masarinae (Pollen Wasps)
Genus Pseudomasaris
Species coquilletti (Pseudomasaris coquilletti)
Explanation of Names
Pseudomasaris coquilletti Rohwer 1911
Identification
In females, the yellow of upper orbits are produced toward ocelli (not so in the similar zonalis); humeri are more rounded than in zonalis (which have humeri with an obtuse anterior ridge):


Antennal segments VI-VII in males are widened gradually to a less well defined club, not much wider than segment VII; front of mid-tibia emarginate (with an apical notch).
Range
OR, CA, UT, AZ(1)
Print References
Rohwer, S. A. (1911). Descriptions of new species of wasps with notes on described species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Original Description
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Checklist of species of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)
Carpenter J.M. 2001. American Museum novitates 3325. 40 pp.