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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) » Monobia » Monobia texana

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Copyright © 2007 Tom Bentley

Wasp - Monobia texana -

Pena Blanca Lake - Coronado National Forest, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
October 20, 2007

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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 24 October, 2007 - 5:52pm
Last updated 12 December, 2008 - 3:17pm

Moved

Moved from Potter and Mason Wasps.

… Matthias Buck, 12 December, 2008 - 3:16pm

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Moved

Moved from Ancistrocerus.

… Matthias Buck, 25 October, 2007 - 3:43pm

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Uncertain...

I am quite certain that this is not an Ancistrocerus even though I can't make an alternative suggestion (not familiar enough with the southwestern fauna). I have examined almost all the North American species of Ancistrocerus, and they all look very different. I guess we'll have to leave this one for another day... Thanks, Tom, for contributing images of such interesting species!

… Matthias Buck, 25 October, 2007 - 3:43pm

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Arizona eumenines

Three genera come to mind but this colour pattern doesn't match my memories of twenty-odd years ago - Smeringodynerus, Dolichodynerus and Cephalodynerus. The closest match might be Smeringodynerus morelios, but I don't have specimens at hand at the moment to check.

… Rob Longair, 11 November, 2007 - 10:39pm

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(Extremely) red Ancistrocerus sp.

At least, this nectaring specimen is a female. But it looks almost too red to be an A. tuberculocephalus, unless there is considerable regional variation. I ignored such a Hornet-like color-pattern (especially on mesoscutum) could exist at all in this genus.

… Richard Vernier, 25 October, 2007 - 3:43am

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My mistake

As it took a long time, I thought connexion had failed. Is it possible to cancel when this occurs?

… Richard Vernier, 25 October, 2007 - 3:41am

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Resembles

Polistes Perplexus but I'm not certain about that.

… Jon M. Yuschock, 24 October, 2007 - 7:43pm

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looks like a eumenidae(potter

looks like a eumenidae(potter wasp.)

… William Ericson, 24 October, 2007 - 11:04pm

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