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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Parancistrocerus » Parancistrocerus pensylvanicus
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Wasp - Parancistrocerus pensylvanicus
Copyright © 2007 Tom Bentley

Wasp - Parancistrocerus pensylvanicus
Blue River Sand Barrens, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
August 25, 2007
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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 25 August, 2007 - 9:51pm
Last updated 6 September, 2007 - 4:50pm

Moved
Moved from Potter and Mason Wasps.
… Matthias Buck, 6 September, 2007 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

Parancistrocerus pensylvanicus (WI)
The most common Parancistrocerus in eastern Canada and bordering U.S. Surprisingly the first image on BG. Note the whitish markings which separate many specimens of this species from all other Parancistrocerus in the area (markings can also be yellow).
… Matthias Buck, 6 September, 2007 - 4:49pm login or register to post comments

Eumeninae.
Quite possibly a species of Symmorphus, but I might wait for confirmation from Matthias Buck:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 28 August, 2007 - 7:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Not a Symmorphus...
1st urotergite being evenly convex, without the central groove peculiar to Symmorphus. This VERY small Eumenine could be a Stenodynerus. But dwarf size and fairly stout head remind me of Microdynerus, whose 15 species are mentioned in the checklist of Nearctica.com. If so, the genus would be new for BG.
… Richard Vernier, 29 August, 2007 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

 
Very cool..I hope Dr Buck get
Very cool..I hope Dr Buck gets a look at this one too. Maybe he can nail it down! That would be great if it is a new genus. For a while I was going to stop shooting all the wasps but then I realized there are so MANY species!!
… Tom Bentley, 29 August, 2007 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

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