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Species Anoplius aethiops

Spider Wasp - Anoplius aethiops - female

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 Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)

Family Pompilidae (Spider Wasps)

Subfamily Pompilinae

Tribe Pompilini

Genus Anoplius (Blue-black Spider Wasps)

No Taxon (Subgenus Lophopompilus)

Species aethiops (Anoplius aethiops)

Remarks

A. aethiops visits flowers while A. cleora RARELY does. Soil type is also significant. A. cleora is almost completely restricted to very sandy soil and A. aethiops is not. Note by Nick Fensler

Contributed by Nick Fensler on 15 July, 2006 - 12:43am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 24 October, 2006 - 11:30am

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