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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 » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Crabronini » Crabronina » Crossocerus » Subgenus Blepharipus (Crossocerus Subgenus Blepharipus) » Crossocerus maculipennis
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Curated male specimen from the CAS - Crossocerus maculipennis - male
Copyright © 2019 Aaron Schusteff

Curated male specimen from the CAS - Crossocerus maculipennis - Male
Moraga, Contra Costa County, California, USA
May 15, 1982
Frontal view.

Note the tridentate mandible here...a character that separates C. maculipennis from C. nitidiventris, the latter having bidentate mandibles (per the key in Leclercq(1)(2000)).

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 9 August, 2019 - 3:49am

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