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Species Sphex flavovestitus

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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 Sphecidae (Thread-waisted Wasps)
Subfamily Sphecinae
Tribe Sphecini
Genus Sphex
Species flavovestitus (Sphex flavovestitus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sphex flavitarsis (Fernald 1906) treated as synonymous in (1) but as a junior synonym of S. flavovestitus in (2)
Explanation of Names
Sphex flavovestitus F. Smith 1856
flavovestitus 'clothed in yellow'
Identification
can be identified by black body, orange tibiae and tarsi, and strong golden pubescence (including on lateral areas of scutum)
S. nudus also has tan legs but thorax dark without golden lateral marks on scutum, pubescence lighter-colored
S. habenus female also has a dark body with golden pubescence but legs dark
Range
se US (VA-FL-TX) & Mexico(3)(4)
Works Cited
1.A reclassification of the Sphecinae with a revision of the Nearctic species of the tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini
Bohart RM and Menke AS. 1963. University of California Publications in Entomology 30:91-182.
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.
3.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
4.Sphecid wasps of the world: a generic revision
Richard Mitchell Bohart, Arnold S. Menke. 1976. University of California Press.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 10 September, 2013 - 1:39pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Matthias Buck, margarethe brummermann, v belov, KenW, PaleoJon, bdagley
Last updated 13 May, 2023 - 6:34pm

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