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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 » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Trypoxylini » Pison
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Possibly Pison, or Pisonopsis? - Pison
Copyright © 2010 Arthur Scott Macmillan

Possibly Pison, or Pisonopsis? - Pison
Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, USA
April 17, 2010
This small black wasp twisted its abdomen and seemed not very alert. Perhaps injured?

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Possibly Pison, or Pisonopsis? - Pison Possibly Pison, or Pisonopsis? - Pison
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Contributed by Arthur Scott Macmillan on 20 April, 2010 - 3:33am
Last updated 27 July, 2013 - 11:05am

Pison
See comment here:
… Matthias Buck, 27 July, 2013 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

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… Matthias Buck, 27 July, 2013 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Trypoxylini.
… Matthias Buck, 27 July, 2013 - 10:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 17 May, 2010 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Schneider, 17 May, 2010 - 12:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Ken
I am very unsure of my initial guess, and even where to move this. I will add that I have seen this rather small species more than once and they seem to have a strange habit of twisting their abdomen to the side. I don't know what to make of that!
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 17 May, 2010 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Well -
your guess may well be right, but we might be more likely to get a confirmation or ID here... Let's leave it here for a while to see if an expert comments? I don't know anything about this type of wasp, I'm afraid.
… Ken Schneider, 17 May, 2010 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

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