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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 » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sphecinae » Sphecini » Sphex » Ashmead's Digger Wasp (Sphex ashmeadi)

Species Sphex ashmeadi - Ashmead's Digger Wasp

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Black and Red Wasp - Sphex ashmeadi - male unkn wasp - Sphex ashmeadi - female Large wasp with red abdomen - Sphex ashmeadi Digger Wasp? - Sphex ashmeadi - male wing-flicking redtail - Sphex ashmeadi - female Sphex ashmeadi - Sphex ashmeadi Sphex ashmeadi? - Sphex ashmeadi - female Sphex lucae? - Sphex ashmeadi - male
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 Sphecidae (Thread-waisted Wasps)
Subfamily Sphecinae
Tribe Sphecini
Genus Sphex
Species ashmeadi (Ashmead's Digger Wasp)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Chlorion ashmeadi Fernald 1906
Explanation of Names
Sphex ashmeadi (Fernald)
named after William Harris Ashmead
Identification
legs all-black, male abdomen mostly or all black
Range
sw US (CA to UT-?CO-TX) & n. Mexico(1)
Remarks
Femora black in male, red in female.
Works Cited
1.A reclassification of the Sphecinae with a revision of the Nearctic species of the tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini
Bohart RM and Menke AS. 1963. University of California Publications in Entomology 30:91-182.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 11 October, 2009 - 7:36am
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 11 May, 2023 - 5:20pm

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