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Red Tip, Black Legs - Sphex
Copyright © 2018 Gacko

Red Tip, Black Legs - Sphex
Desoto, Dallas County, Texas, USA
July 7, 2018
I wasn't quite sure what to do with this -- I really wasn't paying attention or being careful in the last few minutes before heading inside, so I was just kind of clicking away with my camera as I made my way through my back yard-- so I didn't get good images. I looked for the wasp in the following days by didn't see it again. It was flying at the same time as Sphex ichneumeneus, S. habenus, and S. pensylvanicus. Maybe just a strangely marked habenus?

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Contributed by Gacko on 13 July, 2018 - 12:36am
Last updated 2 April, 2021 - 3:26am

Moved
Moved from Sphex texanus.
… John S. Ascher, 2 April, 2021 - 3:26am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sphex.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 14 February, 2021 - 3:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sphex dorsalis.
… John S. Ascher, 6 October, 2020 - 1:53am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sphex.
… John S. Ascher, 1 March, 2019 - 9:14pm login or register to post comments

 
do black legs in a female suggest S texanus? or palmodes?
it is my understanding that a female S dorsalis with the red tip would have red legs.
could this be a female S texanus with black legs or palmodes?
… Bob McCall, 28 September, 2020 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

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