I just went thru Mydas images and there were none that seemed to match the two I've just submitted? Where to next? Do I need to focus getting both head frontal & lateral views of their abodomine? There must be scads more images that I didn't access!

The one that Dr. Ascher has now labeled Pepsis. You did have another Mydid that was very dark.

Mysterious insects. And all the shooters in the east supposedly will be submitting only one very variable species: M. clavatus. In the west there are more. But I seriously doubt anyone has definitively defined what is what. They can't even decide what the adults eat if they eat at all. I heard there was at least one graduate student in the east making an effort to study these guys. Otherwise shoot them all, sort them out later. And, oh, you might want to catch a few for your local museum.

is very diverse, quite different from that of the East, and far less well known

you can expect to find many species never photographed before by anyone

That's exciting! I'd like a few of those!

Thanks Herschel That gives me a much better handle of what the status is on Mydid. The one that caught my attention has some red color on the abdomine.