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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 » Vespidae » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Leptochilus » Leptochilus republicanus
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Potter wasp? Anything more precise possible? - Leptochilus republicanus
Copyright © 2006 Jack Connor

Potter wasp? Anything more precise possible? - Leptochilus republicanus
Port Republic, Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA
August 28, 2006
I'm on a project trying to ID all insects nectaring on a single bush in my wife's garden (a mountain mint). Surprisingly difficult task; maybe not possible for a novice armed only with a camera? Discussion at one of the possible matches here suggests it's hard to say anything more specific than Eumeninae . And maybe that's not even correct. So many wasps, so similarly colored!

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Contributed by Jack Connor on 31 August, 2006 - 7:29pm
Last updated 1 July, 2013 - 7:11pm

Moved
Moved from Leptochilus.
… Matthias Buck, 21 June, 2007 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

Leptochilus republicanus, female (NJ)
The only other species of this genus in NJ, L. acolhuus, has a distinct swelling between the ocelli, narrower temples (= the area behind the compound eye) and a yellow submarginal carina of the propodeum (= the process above the hind coxae; black in republicanus). A fairly rare species that is great to have on bugguide.
… Matthias Buck, 21 June, 2007 - 3:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Potter and Mason Wasps.
… Eric R. Eaton, 20 November, 2006 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

Leptochilus sp. - female
Sorry for having overlooked these nice pics untils now.
… Richard Vernier, 10 September, 2006 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

 
R.V. Thank you for the ID
R.V.

Thank you for the ID -- more helpful than you may realize.
… Jack Connor, 15 September, 2006 - 2:17pm login or register to post comments

Mason wasp.
Not a true 'potter,' but in the Eumeninae. Matthias Buck, or Richard Vernier, could probably give you a genus at least. I am decidedly useless until I get more familiar with their anatomy:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 September, 2006 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you,Eric,
for the helpful info.

I appreciate your comments here and elsewhere throughout the BG site.

Very helpful!
… Jack Connor, 2 September, 2006 - 6:46am login or register to post comments

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