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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 » Grass-carrying Wasps (Isodontia) » Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp (Isodontia mexicana)
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Thread-waisted Wasp - Isodontia mexicana
Copyright © 2016 leealloway

Thread-waisted Wasp - Isodontia mexicana
Locust Grove, Orange County, Virginia, USA
September 6, 2016
Size: <1"
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Contributed by leealloway on 6 September, 2016 - 9:58pm
Last updated 9 February, 2020 - 7:34pm

Moved
Moved from Grass-carrying Wasps.
… Matthias Buck, 9 February, 2020 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 7 September, 2016 - 5:06am login or register to post comments

These appear to be...
...different specimens. Note the silver spots (or lack of silver spots) on the thorax.

The first looks like Isodontia; the second would be Eremnophila aureonotata.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 September, 2016 - 10:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks. Sorry about mixing s
Thanks. Sorry about mixing specimens. There were several individuals, each moving rapidly. I see these are not the same.
… leealloway, 6 September, 2016 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

 
I've unlinked the images...
...as linking is reserved for different views of the same individual.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 7 September, 2016 - 5:07am login or register to post comments

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