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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) » Larrini » Gastrosericina » Tachytes » Tachytes guatemalensis
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Square-headed Wasp - Tachytes guatemalensis - female
Copyright © 2011 Photographed by Keith Shelton

Square-headed Wasp - Tachytes guatemalensis - Female
Stone River Rd, Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA
August 6, 2007
The Wasp was photographed on goldenrod a few years ago.
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Contributed by James Shelton on 15 October, 2011 - 12:14am
Last updated 15 October, 2011 - 10:42pm

Moved
Moved from Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps.
… James Shelton, 15 October, 2011 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

Square-headed Wasp
Something like this? (Not an ID)

… Yurika Alexander, 15 October, 2011 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
It really looks like that.
… James Shelton, 15 October, 2011 - 4:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sphiximorpha.
… James Shelton, 15 October, 2011 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

Wasp-like Wasp
Looks like a wasp to me.
… John F. Carr, 15 October, 2011 - 8:45am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
Those antenna were just so small I wasn't sure about the wing veination.
… James Shelton, 15 October, 2011 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… James Shelton, 15 October, 2011 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

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