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Species Sphex pensylvanicus - Great Black Digger Wasp

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

Subphylum Hexapoda - Hexapods

Class Insecta - Insects

Order Hymenoptera - Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies

No Taxon Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps

No Taxon Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps

Family Sphecidae - Thread-waisted Wasps

Subfamily Sphecinae

Tribe Sphecini

Genus Sphex

Species pensylvanicus - Great Black Digger Wasp

Nothing below this species

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