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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 » Tachypompilus » Western Red-tailed Spider Wasp (Tachypompilus unicolor)

Species Tachypompilus unicolor - Western Red-tailed Spider Wasp

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Red Wasp Tachipompilus. ferrugineus? - Tachypompilus unicolor Tachypompilus unicolor? - Tachypompilus unicolor Red Paper Wasp? - Tachypompilus unicolor - female Orange Wasp - Tachypompilus unicolor - female Tachypompilus? - Tachypompilus unicolor - male Tachypompilus? - Tachypompilus unicolor - male Poecilopompilus? - Tachypompilus unicolor Tachypompilus unicolor? - Tachypompilus unicolor - male
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 Tachypompilus
Species unicolor (Western Red-tailed Spider Wasp)
Other Common Names
Red-tailed spider wasp (though this name is often applied to several species in the genus)
Numbers
2 sspp. in our area:(1)(2)
1. Tachypompilus unicolor cerinus: s. CA, AZ, NM, UT, TX
2. Tachypompilus unicolor unicolor: BC; CA, ID, ND, n. UT, WY
Identification
Subspecies are noted as follows:
T. u. cerinus: wings hyaline to nearly hyaline, body lacking dark markings
T. u. unicolor: wings darkly pigmented, body often dark-marked (especially males)
Works Cited
1.California Spider Wasps of the Subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Wasbauer, M. S. and L. S. Kimsey. 1985. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, No. 26.
2.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Contributed by Nick Fensler on 9 August, 2006 - 1:43pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 1 July, 2022 - 2:19am

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