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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) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pepsinae » Tarantula-hawk Wasps and Allies (Pepsini) » Entypus » Entypus aratus
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Pepsine wasp from southern Chiricahua Mnts - Entypus aratus - female
Copyright © 2013 Aaron Schusteff

Pepsine wasp from southern Chiricahua Mnts - Entypus aratus - Female
Tex Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
July 23, 2013
Here are three images of the female from the post below:



Using Townes(1) I was able to verify a number of characters on the subfamily Pepsinae from these images and those in the post in the thumbnail above. And I think this is Entypus aratus, following Frank Kurczewski lead from Alice's post below:


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Pepsine wasp from southern Chiricahua Mnts - Entypus aratus - female Pepsine wasp from southern Chiricahua Mnts - Entypus aratus - female Pepsine wasp from southern Chiricahua Mnts - Entypus aratus - female Pepsine wasp from southern Chiricahua Mnts - Entypus aratus - female Pepsine wasp from southern Chiricahua Mnts - Entypus aratus - female
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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 25 November, 2013 - 12:22am
Last updated 5 October, 2015 - 12:45am

Moved
Moved from Pepsini.
… Aaron Schusteff, 5 October, 2015 - 12:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pepsinae.
… John S. Ascher, 28 March, 2014 - 9:36am login or register to post comments

Another nice series, Aaron.
.
… Ron Hemberger, 25 November, 2013 - 3:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Ron
Pompilids are fascinating creatures :-)
… Aaron Schusteff, 25 November, 2013 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

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