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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) » Zimmermann's Mud-dauber Wasp (Chalybion zimmermanni) » Aztec Mud-dauber Wasp (Chalybion zimmermanni aztecum)
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Unid. Sphecid - Chalybion zimmermanni - female
Copyright © 2012 John Schneider

Unid. Sphecid - Chalybion zimmermanni - Female
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
August 6, 2012
Size: ~18 mm
flicked its wings a lot while walking. Isodontia is my guess. [Updated to add gender]

Edit: First BG image for this subspecies.
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Contributed by John Schneider on 6 August, 2012 - 5:44pm
Last updated 22 May, 2017 - 8:11am

Female
10 flagellomeres = ♀
… Bob Biagi, 15 August, 2015 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thread-waisted Wasps.
… John S. Ascher, 15 November, 2012 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

Looks very similar to this sp
Looks very similar to this specimen: http://bugguide.net/node/view/118361/bgimage

perhaps we have a new species?
… k jkh, 1 November, 2012 - 11:09am login or register to post comments

 
I found it! its chalybion zim
I found it! its chalybion zimmermani: https://www.google.com/search?as_q=Chalybion%20zimmermanni&biw=1280&bih=907&sei=LqCSUM7aAoqk9ASl74DoCg&tbm=isch
… k jkh, 1 November, 2012 - 11:17am login or register to post comments

 
I think you're right
From the revision:

"Chalybion zimmermanni aztecum...
...Male—Differing from typical subspecies as follows: wings clear except at apex."
… John S. Ascher, 15 November, 2012 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 7 August, 2012 - 2:34pm login or register to post comments

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