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Back-yard Rhyssomatus - Rhyssomatus medialis
Copyright © 2012 Jason Botz

Back-yard Rhyssomatus - Rhyssomatus medialis
Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
Size: 4.0 mm
Collected summer 2012. Rhyssomatus sculpturatus Champion, I believe. Matches specimens in Nogales USDA collection. It is known from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras (1) - not from the U.S. in any publication I could find. Maybe Dr. O'Brien can have a look and let me know what he thinks. I suspect that some of the other unspecified Rhyssomatus sp. from southern AZ belong to this species as well.

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Contributed by Jason Botz on 21 December, 2012 - 10:53am
Last updated 28 January, 2017 - 2:30am

thanks for the name, Charlie!
Moved from Rhyssomatus.
… v belov, 28 December, 2012 - 1:11am login or register to post comments

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Rhyssomatus medialis Casey A not rare, but not common southeastern AZ species, of which I have one also from NM and from CA.Excellent photos made it much easier to ID. It is a difficult genus with many new species.
… Charles W. O'Brien, 27 December, 2012 - 10:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Charlie!
I'm glad you were able to staighten this one out for me!
… Jason Botz, 2 January, 2013 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

another neat beast --thanks for sharing!
i dropped Dr O'Brien a heads-up note
[edit] Jason pointed out [pers.comm.] several images of apparently conspecific individuals:

good eye. thanks
… v belov, 21 December, 2012 - 11:15am login or register to post comments

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