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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 » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sphecinae » Prionychini » Palmodes
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Spex sp.? - Palmodes - female
Copyright © 2012 Alice Abela

Spex sp.? - Palmodes - Female
Santa Barbara County, California, USA
October 29, 2012
Size: ~3cm
Found in veldt grass dominated pasture land. Foraging among the grass tussocks and observed digging up Jerusalem cricket (JC) nymphs and dragging them to their ground nests (hole ~1.5cm in diameter excavated in sandy soil). The JCs were ~2cm and the wasp I saw, dug down over 4cm to extract its JC.
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Contributed by Alice Abela on 29 October, 2012 - 10:46pm
Last updated 15 November, 2012 - 8:10pm

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 15 November, 2012 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

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… John F. Carr, 7 November, 2012 - 10:15pm login or register to post comments

Not sphex
not a sphex, idk exactly what it is but its not a sphex. Maybe podalonia? Not prionyx bec the abdomen doesnt look right.
… k jkh, 1 November, 2012 - 11:02am login or register to post comments

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There's a Palmodes cabo (formerly in Sphex) that's reported to provision its nests with JCs: http://research.calacademy.org/sites/research.calacademy.org/files/Departments/ent/sphecidae/Genera_and_species_pdf/Palmodes.pdf. Maybe a candidate?
… Alice Abela, 30 October, 2012 - 2:34pm login or register to post comments

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