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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
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

Moved
Moved from Sphex.
… John S. Ascher, 20 August, 2015 - 10:09pm

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 1 April, 2014 - 7:51pm

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