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Wasp ID Request - Auplopus adjunctus
Copyright © 2008 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Wasp ID Request - Auplopus adjunctus
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
September 14, 2008

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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 16 September, 2008 - 8:56am
Last updated 20 June, 2017 - 8:47pm

Moved
Moved from Auplopus.
… Nick Fensler, 20 June, 2017 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

Possibly...
but the orange hind coxae are strange, but maybe just color variation. I'll have to look that one up. The abdomen looks unusually shiny, as well. I'll have to do a little more research; this may be nothing more than a subspecies of A. mellipes, but might also be something different.
… Nick Fensler, 19 September, 2008 - 5:35am login or register to post comments

I think this is Auplopus, may
I think this is Auplopus, maybe A. mellipes
… William Ericson, 16 September, 2008 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

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