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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Tiphioidea » Tiphiid Wasps (Tiphiidae) » Brachycistidinae » Colocistis » Colocistis crassa
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2nd Tiphiid Wasp (ventral) - Colocistis crassa - male
Copyright © 2017 Bob Biagi

2nd Tiphiid Wasp (ventral) - Colocistis crassa - Male
Tonopah Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
June 3, 2015
Size: 15.5mm
These are images of a Tiphiid wasp that I believe is a male Colocistis crassa.
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For ID info about this guy, see the first one that I filmed, here: ♂ After checking both of them, I could not find any differences in the quality of the key characters.

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2nd Tiphiid Wasp (ventral) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (ventral head) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (ventral abdomen) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (dorsal abdomen) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (dorsal bright-light) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (lateral upside-down) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (lateral) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (dorsal) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (wings) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (dorsal head) - Colocistis crassa - male 2nd Tiphiid Wasp (on rock) - Colocistis crassa - male
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Contributed by Bob Biagi on 4 March, 2017 - 5:31pm
Last updated 10 April, 2017 - 12:52pm

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