Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Photo#727130
An Ammophila from Kelso Dunes - Ammophila - male

An Ammophila from Kelso Dunes - Ammophila - Male
Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve, San Bernardino County, California, USA
September 22, 2012
This Ammophila was hanging out on vegetation near the edge of the dunes. It was photographed 20 miles SW of the Ammophila in the post below:



Note that, unlike that other post, this one has mostly ferruginous (= reddish) mandibles that are black at the bases and tips, as in A. aberti...but the petiole here is red (rather than black, at least dorsally, as in A. aberti).

I counted 11 flagellomeres (zooming-in on the full-size image), and that...as well as the apparent lack of significant tarsal racks on the fore-legs...indicates this is a male.

Images of this individual: tag all
An Ammophila from Kelso Dunes - Ammophila - male An Ammophila from Kelso Dunes - Ammophila - male