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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 » Vespidae » Pollen Wasps (Masarinae) » Pseudomasaris » Pseudomasaris maculifrons

Species Pseudomasaris maculifrons

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Unidentified Bee - Pseudomasaris maculifrons - male Female Pseudomasaris on Phacelia in Anza-Borrego - Pseudomasaris maculifrons - female Yellowjacket Fly (Chrysotoxum sp.), Family Syrpidae? on a Phacelia in the Lucerne Valley portion of the Mojave Desert - Pseudomasaris maculifrons Pseudomasaris maculifrons - male Hymenoptera - Pseudomasaris maculifrons Wasp - Pseudomasaris maculifrons - female Wasp - Pseudomasaris maculifrons - female Pseudomasaris maculifrons - 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
Subfamily Masarinae (Pollen Wasps)
Genus Pseudomasaris
Species maculifrons (Pseudomasaris maculifrons)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pseudomasaris albifrons Rohwer 1912, Pseudomasaris zonalis neomexicanus Rohwer 1912, Pseudomasaris texanus neomexicanus Bradley 1922, Pseudomasaris rohweri Bradley 1922
Explanation of Names
Pseudomasaris maculifrons (Fox 1894)
Range
CA to NM & UT; Mexico (Baja, Sonora)(1)
Food
Females collect pollen and nectar mostly from Phacelia spp. (i.e. P. crenulata, P. distans, P. pachyphylla)
Print References
Alcock J. (1985) Hilltopping behavior in the wasp Pseudomasaris maculifrons (Fox) (Hymenoptera: Masaridae). J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 58: 162-166. (Full text)
Fox, W. J. (1893). Report on Some Mexican Hymenoptera: Princiaplly from Lower California. (Original Description)
Internet References
iNaturalist
GBIF
Works Cited
1.Checklist of species of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)
Carpenter J.M. 2001. American Museum novitates 3325. 40 pp.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 27 March, 2010 - 12:30am
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 15 December, 2020 - 12:06pm

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