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colorful wasp - Pterocheilus diversicolor - female

colorful wasp - Pterocheilus diversicolor - Female
Borrego Dunes near intersection of Pegleg Road and Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs, San Diego County, California, USA
March 28, 2017

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colorful wasp - Pterocheilus diversicolor - female colorful wasp - Pterocheilus diversicolor - female colorful wasp - Pterocheilus diversicolor - female

Such a beauty!
Your photo shows the female, Joyce.

This species is strikingly sexually dimorphic...the male appears below:

 

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