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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sphecinae » Sphecini » Grass-carrying Wasps (Isodontia) » Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp (Isodontia mexicana)
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Wasp on Leaf - Isodontia mexicana
Copyright © 2018 Rachel K Hall

Wasp on Leaf - Isodontia mexicana
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
August 24, 2018
Size: 1"
Sitting on a penta leaf on my back deck; sunny warm day
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Contributed by Rachel Kunc Hall on 29 August, 2018 - 1:41pm
Last updated 9 February, 2020 - 6:42pm

Moved
Moved from Grass-carrying Wasps.
… Matthias Buck, 9 February, 2020 - 6:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Isodontia is correct. Image cropped for placement.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 29 August, 2018 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

Isodontia (grass-carrying wasp)
Hairy thorax and relatively round metasoma on a long petiole with a small reddish spot are all consistent with this genus. Not sure if species ID is possible.
… Arch S. Robison, 29 August, 2018 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Wasps...thanks for ID
Thanks for the quick ID. Sure is a beautiful specimen.
… Rachel Kunc Hall, 30 August, 2018 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

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