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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) » Club-horned Wasps (Sapygidae) » Eusapyga » Eusapyga verticalis
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Eusapyga verticalis
Copyright © 2007 Hartmut Wisch

Eusapyga verticalis
Off Angeles Crest Highway, ~5000 ft, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, USA
June 24, 2007
Size: ~10 mm
Nectaring in Eriogonum fasciculatum .
ID confirmed by Doug Yanega.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 9 July, 2007 - 2:22am
Last updated 26 July, 2007 - 4:51pm

Just found another female
of this species, but at Eight Dollar Mountain, Selma, Oregon. Just examined specimen.
Will post photos once I can access my computer at home.
… Hartmut Wisch, 17 May, 2015 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sapygid wasps.
… Hartmut Wisch, 26 July, 2007 - 4:51pm login or register to post comments

The exact intermediate...
Between Sapyga and Polochrum. I wonder which bees are parasitized by this superb, vespid-like, Sapygid. Blessed Golden State, with such a stunning diversity of wasps and bees...
… Richard Vernier, 9 July, 2007 - 7:57am login or register to post comments

 
Hi Richard,
just reread your comments and recalled Doug Yanega's remarks. He commented that there are three different genera, each with one sp. in CA, with very subtle differences. Based on the darkness on the wing apex, he thought that Eusapyga verticalis is the most likely candidate.
Please see also a new post from Mt. Pinos, CA:
… Hartmut Wisch, 26 July, 2007 - 12:20pm login or register to post comments

Sapygidae
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… John S. Ascher, 9 July, 2007 - 6:32am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks to both of you,
John and Richard. Many different insects visited the buckwheat in this spot, just haven't had time to process all of the images.
… Hartmut Wisch, 9 July, 2007 - 2:56pm login or register to post comments

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