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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sceliphrinae » Mud-dauber Wasps (Sceliphrini) » Blue Mud-dauber Wasps (Chalybion) » Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp (Chalybion californicum)
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spider wasp? - Chalybion californicum
Copyright © 2006 Kim Fleming

spider wasp? - Chalybion californicum
Donalds, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
June 26, 2006
spider wasp - Auplopus mellipes?
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Contributed by Kim Fleming on 26 June, 2006 - 6:11pm
Last updated 20 February, 2008 - 4:56pm

Male!
:)
… Bob Biagi, 16 August, 2015 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thread-waisted Wasps.
… Eric R. Eaton, 20 February, 2008 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sphecinae.
… Robin McLeod, 31 October, 2006 - 7:58pm login or register to post comments

Sphecid wasp
I would say.
… Adalbert Goertz, 26 June, 2006 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

 
woops, I shouldn't have added
woops, I shouldn't have added the mellipes. This one looks similar to this wasp? thanks.
… Kim Fleming, 26 June, 2006 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Great Image.
I just wish I could tell you exactly what it is! Adalbert is right, it is in the Sphecidae, subfamily Sphecinae. Possibly 'just' a blue mud dauber in the genus Chalybion, but I'm really unsure.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 June, 2006 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks much, to both of you!
Thanks much, to both of you! I found about 12 of these in the rain, loosely clustered on a sheltered tree by an abandoned old house. There were some of what I call regular (vertical columns) and then some "chunky" looking mud nests nearby. (great terms, I know!). Thanks again!
… Kim Fleming, 27 June, 2006 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

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