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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pompilinae » Pompilini » Poecilopompilus » Poecilopompilus interruptus » Poecilopompilus interruptus interruptus
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Black and yellow wasp, brown eyes, spiny legs - Poecilopompilus interruptus - male
Copyright © 2012 Bob Webster

Black and yellow wasp, brown eyes, spiny legs - Poecilopompilus interruptus - Male
Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma, USA
August 5, 2012
Size: about 11 mm
It was on a tree with sap, with other wasps and insects.

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Black and yellow wasp, brown eyes, spiny legs - Poecilopompilus interruptus - male Black and yellow wasp, brown eyes, spiny legs - Poecilopompilus interruptus - male
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Contributed by Bob Webster on 6 August, 2012 - 10:39am
Last updated 26 June, 2021 - 2:50am

Moved
Moved from Poecilopompilus interruptus.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 26 June, 2021 - 2:50am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spider Wasps.

Since Nick didn't say I was wrong, I'm going to assume that I was right. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 17 August, 2012 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes...
you are correct:)
… Nick Fensler, 17 August, 2012 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.

I think it's safe to move these this far, at least.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 7 August, 2012 - 6:55pm login or register to post comments

Not an ID, just an observation...
It looks a lot like Poecilopompilus interruptus:

… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 August, 2012 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

 
That looks really close.
I must have skipped over that species because of all the brown ones when I was hunting for the design on the thorax.

It could be the photo angles, but it looks like this one and the black ones in the guide have a bigger spur on the middle leg than the brown ones. The cressoni subspecies is supposed to be blacker, but its range is the northeast and east coast.
… Bob Webster, 6 August, 2012 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

 
But...
P. interruptus is also extremely variable and I have captured both the nominate subspecies and cressoni-type specimens in Ohio. I don't put a whole lot of stock in the subspecies designations for this species.
… Nick Fensler, 16 August, 2012 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

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