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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sphecinae » Sphecini » Sphex » Sphex lucae

Species Sphex lucae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Digger Wasp with prey - Sphex lucae - female Orange Wasp - Sphex lucae Sphecid at Burrow - Sphex lucae - female Spider Wasp - Sphex lucae - female Wasp Digging Nest - Sphex lucae - female Thread-waisted Wasp Body Scan (ventral thorax) - Sphex lucae - female Wasp photographed in Richland, WA - Sphex lucae - female Sphex? - Sphex lucae - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)
Family Sphecidae (Thread-waisted Wasps)
Subfamily Sphecinae
Tribe Sphecini
Genus Sphex
Species lucae (Sphex lucae)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sphex belfragei Cresson, 1873
Explanation of Names
Sphex (Fernaldina) lucae Saussure, 1867
Identification
Distinguished from species in the subgenus Sphex (Spex) by the absence of a stigmatal groove.(1)

Males are black, including the abdomen. Females have a red abdomen, dark or orange wings and foretarsal-rake spines
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Range
western half of the US; Mexico; one record in GA(2)
Food
Females with prey:
Remarks
The only member of the subgenus Fernaldina Bohart & Menke 1963 in our area (2 spp. worldwide). The subgenus is named after Henry Torsey Fernald, a pioneer entomologist.
See Also
Palmodes praestans has long hairs on femora
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Works Cited
1.A reclassification of the Sphecinae with a revision of the Nearctic species of the tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini
Bohart RM and Menke AS. 1963. University of California Publications in Entomology 30:91-182.
2.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 13 June, 2007 - 5:45pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Robert H. Biagi, PaleoJon
Last updated 13 June, 2024 - 1:26am

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