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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 » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Crabronini » Crabronina » Ectemnius » Subgenus Hypocrabro (Ectemnius Subgenus Hypocrabro) » Ectemnius continuus

Species Ectemnius continuus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References
What Wasp? - Ectemnius continuus - female 1286935 - Ectemnius continuus Bee - Ectemnius continuus Wasp IMG_3384 - Ectemnius continuus Square-headed Wasp Ectemnius continuus - Ectemnius continuus Ectemnius continuus Wasp 460A 6651 & 6654 - Ectemnius continuus crabronid 3 - Ectemnius continuus
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)
No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)
Family Crabronidae (Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies)
Subfamily Crabroninae (Square-headed Wasps)
Tribe Crabronini
Subtribe Crabronina
Genus Ectemnius
No Taxon (Subgenus Hypocrabro)
Species continuus (Ectemnius continuus)
Explanation of Names
Author: Fabricius,1804
Identification
"Note the small inner process on the second tarsomere of the male mid tarsus which immediately distinguishes the species. Note also the black tergum 3 (shared with a few other species such as E. trifasciatus)". Matthias Buck
Range
North America, Europe and Asia
Food
Larvae are fed flies.
Remarks
Very common in British Isles
Internet References
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 30 September, 2006 - 4:07pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 20 July, 2016 - 10:21am

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