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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Zethus » Zethus spinipes » Zethus spinipes variegatus
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Zethus spinipes
Copyright © 2009 Lee McHugh

Zethus spinipes
Goose Pond, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA
October 3, 2009
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Contributed by Lee McHugh on 3 October, 2009 - 8:43pm
Last updated 25 May, 2010 - 5:32pm

Moved
Moved from Zethus spinipes.
… John S. Ascher, 25 May, 2010 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Potter and Mason Wasps.
… Abigail Parker, 5 October, 2009 - 12:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Abigail Parker, 4 October, 2009 - 2:44pm login or register to post comments

Eumeninae
Subfamily Eumeninae, probably Eumenes, base on the shape of the base of the abdomen.
… John F. Carr, 3 October, 2009 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Not Eumenes....
but easily confused with that genus. This is Zethus spinipes. Really nice image, too, that shows the petiole between thorax and abdomen (the shape of which is the major obvious difference between Zethus and Eumenes).
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 October, 2009 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

 
subspecies variegatus?
I know zero about these wasps, but when I moved it I saw there are two subspecies - this one seems to have more white than the nominate subspecies images, does that make it Z. s. variegatus?

Gorgeous insects, I wish I had more of these and fewer yellowjackets!
… Abigail Parker, 5 October, 2009 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

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