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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) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Gorytina » Psammaletes » Psammaletes mexicanus
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Wasp attacking Planthopper - Psammaletes mexicanus - female
Copyright © 2012 Yurika Alexander

Wasp attacking Planthopper - Psammaletes mexicanus - Female
Atco, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
July 29, 2012
Not great image... Found attacking Planthopper (Acanalonia conica).
Gorytina?

[Edit] First image from New Jersey.
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Contributed by Yurika Alexander on 29 July, 2012 - 5:47pm
Last updated 13 September, 2014 - 9:21am

Moved
Moved from Saygorytes phaleratus. Both prey and the pedunculate first abdominal segment reveal this one as Psammaletes.
… Matthias Buck, 16 March, 2013 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps.
… John S. Ascher, 2 August, 2012 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

Female
If it is Crabronidae, it must be a female.
… John F. Carr, 29 July, 2012 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

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