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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pompilinae » Sericopompilini » Sericopompilus » Sericopompilus neotropicalis
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Small Spider Wasp - Sericopompilus neotropicalis - male
Copyright © 2018 Steven Mlodinow

Small Spider Wasp - Sericopompilus neotropicalis - Male
Adobe Creek Reservoir, Kiowa County, Colorado, USA
July 1, 2018
Arid shortgrass prairie/drying reservoir border -- an area relatively lush with flowers and grass

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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 17 July, 2018 - 1:11pm
Last updated 18 July, 2018 - 12:45pm

Moved
Moved from Spider Wasps.
… Steven Mlodinow, 18 July, 2018 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

Male
This looks like a male in the genus Sericopompilus. He may be the same species as your female, but I'm not sure. Let's wait for an expert.
According to Nick Fensler: "only the males of S. neotropicalis have a broad cream band on the basitarsus of the middle leg."
… Bob Biagi, 18 July, 2018 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

 
Yup
this is neotropicalis, the broad white band is visible in this photo.
… Nick Fensler, 18 July, 2018 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

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