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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) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Spheciina » Cicada-killer Wasps (Sphecius) » Western Cicada-killer Wasp (Sphecius grandis)
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Possible hybrid Western x Eastern Cicada Killer - Sphecius grandis
Copyright © 2019 Bill Maynard

Possible hybrid Western x Eastern Cicada Killer - Sphecius grandis
Pueblo County, Colorado, USA
July 6, 2018
At this location, Upper Twin Pond Dam on the Pueblo County portion of Chico Basin Ranch, I have photographed over the past few years mostly Sphecius grandis but also Sphecius speciosus and what I think are hybrids between the two species although here on Bug Guide they are called a color morph of Western Cicada Killers from Utah and the Big Bend part of Texas. I think there is the possiblitly they are hybrids because the location of the mixture of orange and black is not always the same. This is one example from August 2018.
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Contributed by Bill Maynard on 15 August, 2019 - 10:22am
Last updated 9 March, 2021 - 10:58pm

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