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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 (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Cuckoo Bees (Nomadinae) » Nomad Bees (Nomadini) » Nomad Bees (Nomada) » vegana species group (Nomada vegana species group)
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ID for a wasp? - Nomada
Copyright © 2012 nvhamlett@gmail.com

ID for a wasp? - Nomada
Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
July 22, 2012
This wasp was spotted on Dove Weed (Croton setigerus) at the Claremont Colleges' Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station. I was only able to get a couple of shots (with a non-macro lens) before it took off. I realized looking at the photos, however, that this wasp is one that we haven't previously documented at the field station, so any information about its identity will be greatly appreciated!
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Contributed by nvhamlett@gmail.com on 24 September, 2012 - 3:16pm
Last updated 27 September, 2012 - 11:16am

Moved
Moved from Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps.
… John S. Ascher, 27 September, 2012 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

Nomada male
vegana group resembling N. texana
… John S. Ascher, 27 September, 2012 - 11:15am login or register to post comments

 
No wonder it was hard to tell which wasp!
I see I was fooled – this isn't a wasp at all!

Thanks for the ID! Nomada will be a new taxon for our field station invert list. Interestingly, I see Hartmus Wisch photographed a Nomada in this species group right next door at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, where it was also on Croton setigerus:



This is the eighth taxon of cuckoo bees we've found at the field station. I wonder how many kinds are there?
… nvhamlett@gmail.com, 27 September, 2012 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

If I had to guess...
...I'd say something in Gorytina.

But you don't want a guess, so wait to hear from the experts. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 24 September, 2012 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I have no guess at all! The only wasps I spotted in the guide with two spots over a line on the thorax were Ancistrocerus and Pterocheilus, but those may not even be the correct family. There are so many wasps, I could easy have missed some.
… nvhamlett@gmail.com, 25 September, 2012 - 1:05am login or register to post comments

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