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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) » Ancistrocerus
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8037240 yj - Ancistrocerus - male
Copyright © 2018 Rob Curtis

8037240 yj - Ancistrocerus - Male
Mt. Diablo SP, California, USA
June 6, 2018
Size: ~5/8"

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8037240 yj - Ancistrocerus - male 8037240 yj - Ancistrocerus - male
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Contributed by Rob Curtis on 10 July, 2018 - 7:31pm
Last updated 26 July, 2018 - 6:42am

Moved
Moved from Ancistrocerus lutonidus.
… Matthias Buck, 26 July, 2018 - 6:42am login or register to post comments

Congratulations!
Congratulations, this is a very rarely seen species! Any noteworthy details about this find?
… Matthias Buck, 11 July, 2018 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Not really. I had stopped to
Not really. I had stopped to check a bird I saw and then was photographing what was a pair of cooperative Black-tailed Gnatcatchers. Then I noticed that there were some interesting insects that were probably knew for me and got out the macro and concentrated on them. I just assumed that this might well be different from eastern wasps I had. I was more certain that some of the other things here were.
… Rob Curtis, 12 July, 2018 - 12:54am login or register to post comments

 
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher is n
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher is not found in Illinois .I think this wasp is from another state
… Stoil Ivanov, 26 July, 2018 - 12:51am login or register to post comments

 
corrected state!
corrected state!
… Rob Curtis, 26 July, 2018 - 6:29am login or register to post comments

 
Ancistrocerus
Unfortunately, then it is not lutonidus, an eastern species. There is more than one Ancistrocerus species with this pattern in California, not sure which one. Mt. Diablo sounded like an odd locality name for Illinois.
… Matthias Buck, 26 July, 2018 - 6:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Potter and Mason Wasps.
… Matthias Buck, 11 July, 2018 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 10 July, 2018 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

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