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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pepsinae » Tarantula-hawk Wasps and Allies (Pepsini) » Tarantula-hawk Wasps (Pepsis) » Milde's Tarantula-hawk Wasp (Pepsis mildei)
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Pepsis wasp? - Pepsis mildei - male
Copyright © 2015 Ted Lee Eubanks

Pepsis wasp? - Pepsis mildei - Male
McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
October 23, 2015

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Contributed by Ted Lee Eubanks on 24 October, 2015 - 12:59pm
Last updated 2 March, 2017 - 8:21am

Moved
Moved from Pepsini.
… Aaron Schusteff, 31 October, 2015 - 12:05am login or register to post comments

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 24 October, 2015 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

Male!
Ted, he might be a male Pepsis mildei. Sometimes they have that type of a partly black antennae.
Here is one example, from Arizona:
♂
Otherwise they look like this guy:
♂ I'm not sure about the Texas varieties. Aaron or others may have some better info for you. Good Luck!
… Bob Biagi, 24 October, 2015 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Yep, has all the key characters of P. mildei
Including dense hair "brushes" on sternites 4 & 5, with the tips of the bristles reflexed (see 3rd image).
… Aaron Schusteff, 31 October, 2015 - 12:04am login or register to post comments

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