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

Species Sphex lucae - Sphex (Fernaldina) lucae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References
Ichneumon ? - Sphex lucae Orange Wasp - Sphex lucae Digger Wasp? - Sphex lucae Thread-waisted Wasp Body Scan (ventral thorax) - Sphex lucae - female wasp - Sphex lucae Sphex lucae? - Sphex lucae - female Wasp photographed in Richland, WA - Sphex lucae - female Sphex lucae - 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 (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae)
Family Sphecidae (Thread-waisted Wasps)
Subfamily Sphecinae
Tribe Sphecini
Genus Sphex
Species lucae (Sphex (Fernaldina) lucae)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sphex lucae de Saussure, 1867
Sphex belfragei Cresson, 1873
Size
≈23mm (BG images)
Identification
Males are black, including the abdomen.
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Females have a red abdomen, dark or orange wings and tarsal-rake spines on the forelegs.
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Life Cycle
Females with prey:
Remarks
This species is in the subgenus Fernaldina. A detailed description of Sphex lucae appears here, from a 1907 paper by Fernald.
See Also
Palmodes praestans has long hairs on the femora of the legs.
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Internet References
Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 13 June, 2007 - 5:45pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 28 June, 2020 - 5:32pm

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