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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) » Pterocheilus » subgenus Micropterocheilus (Pterocheilus subgenus Micropterocheilus) » Pterocheilus diversicolor

Species Pterocheilus diversicolor

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Remarks · Print References
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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)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Vespidae
Subfamily Eumeninae (Potter and Mason Wasps)
Genus Pterocheilus
No Taxon (subgenus Micropterocheilus)
Species diversicolor (Pterocheilus diversicolor)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pterocheilus diversicolor Rohwer 1911
Size
Female: 8-9mm
Male: 7.5mm
Range
CA, NV (specimen, ID'd by Bohart mentioned here).
Remarks
Rohwer's original description of the female can be read at this BHL link.
Keys for male and female appear in Bohart (1940a), and a brief description of the male and the female appears in Bohart (1940b).
Print References
Bohart, Richard M. (1940a). A Revision of the North American Species of Pterocheilus and Notes on Related Genera (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 33(1):162–208. (Full Text)
Bohart, Richard M. (1940b). Additional notes on Pterocheilus diversicolor Rohwer (Hymen: Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 33(2):282 (Full Text)
Bohart, Richard M. (1999). A review of Micropterocheilus R. Bohart, with its elevation to generic rank and description of new species (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72(2):197-213
Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 15 April, 2016 - 1:14am
Last updated 26 August, 2019 - 12:58am

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