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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 » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Ancistrocerus » Ancistrocerus campestris

Species Ancistrocerus campestris

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Eumeninae (Potter and Mason Wasps)
Genus Ancistrocerus
Species campestris (Ancistrocerus campestris)
Explanation of Names
Ancistrocerus campestris (de Saussure 1852)
Size
Forewing: ♂ 6.5–9 mm, ♀ 9–11 mm(1)
Identification
per Dr. Matthias Buck, the "smiling face" on scutellum and metanotum combined with the shape of the apical band on tergite 1 makes A. campestris fairly distinctive. Ancistrocerus lutonidus is similar but the spots on the scutellum are much larger, nearly confluent, and tergum 2 has a pair of yellow spots.
Range
a common eastern species (NH-FL to ON-MN-SD-TX)(1)
See Also
A. unifasciatus may look alike but lacks the 'curl' at the sides of the median black spot on urotergite I. -- Richard Vernier
Internet References
Species page (1)
Works Cited
1.Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region
Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K. B. Cheung. 2008. Biological Survey of Canada [Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification].
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 6 January, 2006 - 3:09pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Matthias Buck, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 26 July, 2017 - 4:10pm

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