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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 » Brachycistis
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Wasp for ID - Brachycistis - male
Copyright © 2017 Chris Hartley

Wasp for ID - Brachycistis - Male
Oro Valley, Pima County, Arizona, USA
July 26, 2017
Came to blacklights. Thanks in advance.

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Contributed by Chris Hartley on 23 November, 2017 - 10:53am
Last updated 23 November, 2017 - 3:53pm

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… Bob Biagi, 23 November, 2017 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

Male - Tiphiid Wasp
11 flagellomeres = ♂
He does not have a felt line on the second abdominal segment, which rules out all of the Velvet Ants. The first abdominal segment is too short and wide for them anyway and also for the Chyphotidae.
The wing veins are somewhat hard to see, but the marginal cell does not seem to extend very far from the sigma.
Brachycistis:
… Bob Biagi, 23 November, 2017 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks very much...
for the explanation. :)
… Chris Hartley, 23 November, 2017 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

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