Species Pseudomasaris marginalis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Pseudomasaris - Pseudomasaris marginalis - female

Pseudomasaris on Phacelia linearis - Pseudomasaris marginalis - female

Wasp ~1.5cm - Pseudomasaris marginalis - female

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)

Superfamily Vespoidea

Family Vespidae (Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies)

Subfamily Masarinae (Pollen Wasps)

Genus Pseudomasaris

Species marginalis (Pseudomasaris marginalis)

Explanation of Names

Pseudomasaris marginalis (Cresson 1864)

Identification

Head and thorax with long, black hairs. Black with whitish yellow markings, otherwise mostly black; clypeus, scape, most of the thorax, and abdomen ventrally are black. Has a lamellate propodeum (rather than dentate as in the somewhat similar zonalis; if dentate, tooth very short).(1)(2)

Range

BC-CA to AB-NM(3)

Food

Females gather Phacelia pollen to provision nest

Print References

Cresson, E. T. 1864. Descriptions of two new species of Masaris. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia 3:672-678. (Original Description)

Internet References

iNaturalist

GBIF

Works Cited

1.	New records of Pseudomasaris Ashmead (Hymenoptera:Vespoidea, Masaridae), with notes on P. phaceliae Rohwer and P. cazieri Bohart Richards O.W. 1966. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. London (B) 35(3-4): 47-55.

2.	The species of Pseudomasaris Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Masaridae) Richards O.W. 1963. UC Publ. Entomol. 27: 283-310.

3.	Checklist of species of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) Carpenter J.M. 2001. American Museum novitates 3325. 40 pp.

Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 13 July, 2009 - 7:56pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 15 December, 2020 - 12:09pm

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