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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 » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sphecinae » Sphecini » Sphex » Great Black Digger Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus)
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Yellow tarsal appendages, ID? - Sphex pensylvanicus - male
Copyright © 2014 Mark S. Romero

Yellow tarsal appendages, ID? - Sphex pensylvanicus - Male
Cochiti, Sandoval County, New Mexico, USA
August 23, 2008
Size: ~27mm
Lake Cochiti on a white flower. I think I read somewhere that the yellow tarsal appendages were a male characteristic?

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Yellow tarsal appendages, ID? - Sphex pensylvanicus - male Yellow tarsal appendages, ID? - Sphex pensylvanicus - male
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Contributed by Mark S. Romero on 1 April, 2014 - 5:40pm
Last updated 31 May, 2017 - 8:51pm

Male
Note, lack of tarsal-rake spines on the fore-legs and 11 flagellomeres. = ♂
… Bob Biagi, 1 September, 2015 - 6:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sphex.
… John S. Ascher, 20 August, 2015 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
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