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Species Sphex pensylvanicus - Great Black Wasp

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

Class Insecta - Insects

Order Hymenoptera - Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies

No Taxon Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps

No Taxon Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae

Family Sphecidae - Thread-waisted Wasps

Genus Sphex

Species pensylvanicus - Great Black Wasp

Nothing below this species

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