Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)
Family Vespidae (Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps)
Subfamily Masarinae (Pollen Wasps)
Genus Pseudomasaris
Species coquilletti (Pseudomasaris coquilletti)
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):
Range
OR, CA, UT, AZ
Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 2 June, 2006 - 5:32am Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch Last updated 18 July, 2009 - 6:20pm
