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Tiphiid Wasp with Primary Submarginal Isolation (wing pattern) - Colocistis crassa - male
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Tiphiid Wasp with Primary Submarginal Isolation (wing pattern) - Colocistis crassa - Male
Tonopah Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
May 24, 2015
Size: 16mm
Note, the wings of the males of this genus may be easily identified by: The second submarginal cell completely or almost completely underlying the first submarginal cell, the first transverse cubital vein (tCu1) arising at or before basal third of the first submarginal cell.

MC = Marginal cell, along the costal margin or the edge of the wing, after the stigma
SMC1 = Rectangular shaped cell, bulging in the middle, directly to the left of the stigma, in this image
SMC2 = Fighter-jet shaped cell
SMC3 = Pear shaped cell, below SMC2 in this image
tCu1 = Cross-vein between SMC1 and SMC2

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Contributed by Bob Biagi on 9 January, 2017 - 8:00pm
Last updated 7 June, 2019 - 11:20pm

Moved
Moved from Colocistis.
… Bob Biagi, 10 April, 2017 - 12:51pm

Moved
Moved from Brachycistidinae.
… Bob Biagi, 9 January, 2017 - 8:20pm

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