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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 » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Bembicina » Bembix » Bembix americana » Bembix americana hamata
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Bembix sp.? - Bembix americana
Copyright © 2007 Hartmut Wisch

Bembix sp.? - Bembix americana
Small drainage east of Point Bennett, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
September 1, 2002
I wonder whether this might be B. americana hamata.
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 11 February, 2007 - 4:29pm
Last updated 22 December, 2020 - 12:48am

Moved
Moved from Bembix americana.
… John S. Ascher, 22 December, 2020 - 12:48am login or register to post comments

yes, this may be Bembix americana hamata Fox, 1923
According to the red catalog, this subspecies is known only from the CA Channel Islands from "Santa Cruz to San Miguel Islands only"

The photo does look like Bembix americana, and I'm not sure if other similar species occur on San Miguel I.

To be certain we need to check specimens and the literature
… John S. Ascher, 12 February, 2007 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John,
until I can get an ID from a specimen, I'll shelve this under B. americana.
… Hartmut Wisch, 12 February, 2007 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

Bembix for sure
Very familiar color and activity, but I haven't obtained an ID past Bembix. Busy little folk, yes?
… Ron Hemberger, 11 February, 2007 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

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