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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) » Sceliphrinae » Mud-dauber Wasps (Sceliphrini) » Blue Mud-dauber Wasps (Chalybion) » Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp (Chalybion californicum)
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Chalybion? - Chalybion californicum
Copyright © 2011 margarethe brummermann

Chalybion? - Chalybion californicum
ASDM Tucson Mts, Pima County, Arizona, USA
June 25, 2011
Size: about 20mm

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Chalybion? - Chalybion californicum Chalybion? - Chalybion californicum
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 26 June, 2011 - 3:20pm
Last updated 10 September, 2014 - 8:03am

Moved
Moved from Chlorion.
… John S. Ascher, 10 September, 2014 - 8:03am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thread-waisted Wasps.
… margarethe brummermann, 25 June, 2012 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

No
Not a chalybion, a Chlorion. They look similar but Chlorion has a longer thorax and abdomen, a shorter pedicel, and larger head and jaws.
… k jkh, 2 July, 2011 - 6:12pm login or register to post comments

 
No, it's Chalybion
Note small head, hairs on head and thorax, lack of spines on leg, etc.
… John S. Ascher, 10 September, 2014 - 8:02am login or register to post comments

 
spines on legs..
my bad, the lighting was a bit weird so I thought I saw spines on the legs. After looking again I see you are right.
… k jkh, 27 December, 2014 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you John
this id had been bothering me
… margarethe brummermann, 10 September, 2014 - 8:48am login or register to post comments

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