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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) » Crabroninae » Trypoxylini » Trypoxylon » Subgenus Trypargilum (Trypoxylon Subgenus Trypargilum)

Subgenus Trypargilum

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Works Cited

Trypoxylon - Trypoxylon politum - female

Wasp nest mud tubes - Trypoxylon politum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)

Family Crabronidae (Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies)

Subfamily Crabroninae

Tribe Trypoxylini

Genus Trypoxylon

No Taxon Subgenus Trypargilum

Numbers

14 spp. in our area(1)(2)

1. Trypoxylon acipipenne: se.AZ

2. Trypoxylon californicum: western (AZ, CA, NM, NV, OR, w.TX, UT, WA)

3a. Trypoxylon clavatum clavatum: widespread eastern to AZ (AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NM, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, VA, WI, WV)

3b. Trypoxylon clavatum johannis : GA, FL

4a. Trypoxylon collinum collinum: FL, s. GA

4b. Trypoxylon collinum rubrocinctum: eastern to central (AL, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI)

5. Trypoxylon evansi: s.AZ

6. Trypoxylon lactitarse: eastern (AL, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV)

7. Trypoxylon nitidum: se.TX

8. Trypoxylon occidentalis: AZ

9. Trypoxylon orizabense: s.AZ

10. Trypoxylon politum: central and eastern (AL, AR, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV)

11. Trypoxylon spinosum: TX

12. Trypoxylon texense: central to southeastern (NM, TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, OK, AR, TN, NC, SC, MO, KS, CO, NE, IL, KY)

13a. Trypoxylon tridentatum archboldi: FL

13b. Trypoxylon tridentatum tridentatum: widespread (AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, MD, MI, MO, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV)

14. Trypoxylon xantianum: s.CA

Identification

For keys and descriptions see Coville (1982).(2)

Remarks

A single record of Trypoxylon saussurei in Arizona (Chiricahua Mountains) is considered dubious by Coville (1982).(2)

Works Cited

1.	Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

2.	Wasps of the Genus Trypoxylon Subgenus Trypargilum in North America (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) Rollin E. Coville. 1982. University of California Press, Entomology, Volume 97.

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 23 July, 2008 - 10:00pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, ceiseman, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 2 August, 2024 - 12:39am

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