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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) » Sphaeropthalminae » Nocturnal Velvet Ants (Sphaeropthalmini) » Sphaeropthalma
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Hymenoptera - Sphaeropthalma
Copyright © 2013 Andy Lazere

Hymenoptera - Sphaeropthalma
Caspers Regional Park, Orange County, California, USA
September 28, 2013
To blacklight.
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Contributed by Andy Lazere on 30 September, 2013 - 2:20pm
Last updated 7 October, 2013 - 10:19am

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Andy Lazere, 7 October, 2013 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention.
Moved from ID Request.

Thinking one of the nocturnal Mutillids, but placing here for now just to be safe.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 30 September, 2013 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

 
How about Sphaeropthalma?
Looks like this one:
… Ron Hemberger, 6 October, 2013 - 10:57pm login or register to post comments

 
That looks really close Ron,
That looks really close Ron, thanks. And thanks to twiztedminds, for the informative comment
… Andy Lazere, 7 October, 2013 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

 
I'm going to post one with several views, Andy.
Maybe we'll get this to species yet.
… Ron Hemberger, 7 October, 2013 - 1:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
This bears some resemblance to Dryocosmus dubiosus, a gall wasp, but I have no experience to know if it's even the same genus. The bugguide examples look different.
… Andy Lazere, 30 September, 2013 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

 
not a gall wasp
It has a costal cell which gall wasps do not. I would concur with mutillidae but I can't determine from this image.
… twiztedminds, 5 October, 2013 - 11:40pm login or register to post comments

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