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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Ancistrocerus » lineativentris or tuberculocephalus (Ancistrocerus lineativentris or tuberculocephalus)
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Wasp - Ancistrocerus - female
Copyright © 2006 Lynette Elliott

Wasp - Ancistrocerus - Female
Thompson Falls, MT, Sanders County, Montana, USA
June 18, 2006
Black and yellow coloring and pattern like other in this genus.
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 20 August, 2006 - 3:47pm
Last updated 2 July, 2019 - 9:07am

Moved
Moved from Ancistrocerus.
… Matthias Buck, 4 February, 2013 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

right -female
Interestingly, very similar specimens from Colorado have a much more extensive reddish coloration. I suspect these Western Ancistrocerus are very close to A. campestris and are maybe from the same species.
Your specimen is like a "missing link" to only black and yellow Eastern populations. A situation reminding of Polistes aurifer respective to "ordinary" P. fuscatus.
… Richard Vernier, 21 August, 2006 - 5:32am login or register to post comments

 
A. tuberculocephalus?
That species is common in Oregon, and I presume other western states as well. This image reminds me strongly of it.
… Eric R. Eaton, 21 August, 2006 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for the help, Richard
… Lynette Elliott, 21 August, 2006 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

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