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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Cuckoo Wasps & allies (Chrysidoidea) » Flat Wasps (Bethylidae) » Pristocerinae » Pristepyris
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Unknown Ant - Pristepyris - female
Copyright © 2011 Miles Buddy

Unknown Ant - Pristepyris - Female
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
April 5, 2011

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Contributed by Miles Buddy on 5 April, 2011 - 10:46am
Last updated 31 July, 2020 - 5:26pm

Moved
Moved from Pristocerinae.

Mesonotum short, transverse, much wider than long; mesopleuron, seen in dorsal view, quite large; body at most only weakly flattened; out of range for Cleistepyris; abdominal sternum II petiolar flap not expanded laterally; head less or as large as pronotal width and oval shaped; anterior portion of metapectal-propodeal complex much constricted.
… Arturo Santos, 31 July, 2020 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pristocera.

Moving to subfamily because Pristocera does not occur in North America and females in this subfamily should really only be identified by association with the male.
… Arturo Santos, 30 July, 2020 - 9:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pristocerinae.
… v belov, 24 April, 2011 - 1:30pm login or register to post comments

 
How was this identification m
How was this identification made?
… Arturo Santos, 28 July, 2020 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

 
I based my information on
The Bethylidae of America north of Mexico, Evans, 1978.
… Dennis Haines, 31 July, 2020 - 9:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 5 April, 2011 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

looks like a pristocerine bethylid to me, rather
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nice wasp!
… v belov, 5 April, 2011 - 10:55am login or register to post comments

 
It seems to conform best to t
It seems to conform best to the description of Pristocera (Acrepyris) atra, but not all of the species have been worked out, and males and females associated.
… Dennis Haines, 12 April, 2011 - 4:24pm login or register to post comments

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