Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - abdomen |
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Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - face |
Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - hindleg |
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Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - mesepisterum |
Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - pronotum |
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Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - propodeum |
Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - thorax |
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Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata - topview |
Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 9 Isodontia exornata |
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Machele White · 1 Isodontia exornata |
Machele White · 1 Isodontia exornata, top |
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Bohart, R.M., Menke, A.S. 1963 · 0 Isodontia exornata, map |
Overview |
Taken from:
Bohart, R.M., Menke, A.S. 1963. A Reclassification of the Sphecinae: With a Revision of the Nearctic Species of the Tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini.
Male.—Average length 15 mm; black, marked with dark orange red on basal three-fourths of antenna, mandible, legs beyond middle or distal two-thirds of femur, tegula, and petiole; wings dark violaceous; erect hair of head and thorax reddish; face, pronotal ridge, pronotal lobe, mesopleural spot, scutellum laterally, postscutellum, a lateral stripe and posterior spot on pro. podium with bright coppery appressed pubescence; no sternal ciliate bands; flagellomere I longer than IV or V; distant narrow fossulae on flagellomeres IV—VI, no obvious spiculation on flagellomeres; apex of sternite VIII with a deep median emargination; genitalia as in figure 66.
Female.—Average length 19 mm; essentially like male.
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Names |
Isodontia (Isodontia) exornata Fernald
(Figs. 19, 66)
Isodontia exornata Fernald, 1903, Canadian Ent., 35:270. Lectotype ♀, “Ga.” (USNM). Present designation.
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Geographic distribution |
Distribution.—I. exornata occurs in the southeastern United States (Georgia, Florida, Alabama) and ranges west to Texas (fig. 19). Murray (1951) reported it also in North Carolina.
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Natural history |
This species is closely related to I. fuscipennis (Fabricius) but the key characters readily separate them. We have seen females of what appear to be exornata from Mexico, but the antennae are dark, the wings and body lighter, and the appressed pubescence is not so coppery. These may represent a distinct subspecies.
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