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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 » Mud-nesting Spider Wasps (Ageniellini) » Ageniella » Ageniella mintaka

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Ageniella partita Banks - Ageniella mintaka -

Ash Mountain, 2800' elev., Tulare County, California, USA
June 13, 1984
Size: 6 mm

Identified by Dr. Marius Wasbauer.

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Ageniella partita Banks - Ageniella mintaka - female

Ageniella partita Banks - Ageniella mintaka - female

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Contributed by Dennis Haines on 25 March, 2014 - 11:38am
Last updated 14 May, 2014 - 1:38pm

A. partita=mintaka

I was going through some literature and it seems Evans synonymized A. partita with A. (Nemagenia) arcuata. A. partita was originally described as a species in the subgenus Ageniella but is actually the male of A. arcuata. The next available name with taxonomic priority was A. mintaka. See: Notes and Descriptions of Nearctic Ageniella, J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 68(4) 1995 pp. 451-460

… Nick Fensler, 28 January, 2015 - 8:02pm

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Perhaps...

the label was misattributed or switched? This looks much more like another Allaporus (hardly any veins in the wing margin, since it only has one submarginal cell; long pronotum; looks stockier...lacking the overall "dainty" appearance of an Ageniella). A label issue is my first suggestion since Dr. Wasbauer has more years of experience than I have years of life.

… Nick Fensler, 14 May, 2014 - 12:43pm

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The original specimen pictured was...

Allaporus smithianus. There were two misidentified in the series.

… Dennis Haines, 14 May, 2014 - 1:57pm

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This isn't the only specimen so identified by Marius.

So its not a label issue.

… Dennis Haines, 14 May, 2014 - 12:48pm

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Then

I disagree with his identification.

… Nick Fensler, 14 May, 2014 - 12:51pm

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I got the series out for review...

and you're right, it is misidentified. I'll replace it with a true specimen from the series. Warm up the camera scope!

… Dennis Haines, 14 May, 2014 - 1:25pm

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The picture now posted is correct for this species.

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… Dennis Haines, 14 May, 2014 - 1:40pm

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There's

the long, sexy legs of an Ageniella :)

… Nick Fensler, 14 May, 2014 - 1:41pm

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