© Brian E Womble · 9 Sphex pensylvanicus, top Click on map for details about points. IDnature guides Apoid wasp species Sphecidae Sphecini Sphex USGAClarke Links Hosts 80x5 - 240x3 - 240x4 - 320x1 - 320x2 - 320x3 - 640x1 - 640x2 Set display option above. Click on images to enlarge. © Copyright John Ascher, 2006-2014 · 6 Sphex pensylvanicus, sphecid wasp © Copyright Sheryl Pollock 2011 · 5 Sphex pensylvanicus, Great Black Wasp © Copyright Sheryl Pollock 2011 · 4 Sphex pensylvanicus, Great Black Wasp © Copyright source/photographer · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus 4 © Copyright source/photographer · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus 6 © Copyright source/photographer · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus 7 © Copyright source/photographer · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus 8 Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus, side Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus, face Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus, abdomen Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus, thorax Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus, face Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; Photographer: Erika Tucker · 1 Sphex pensylvanicus, top 40 thumbnails  •  slide show 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 22 mm; body all black; wings black with violaceous tint; erect hairs of head and thorax black; face with some appressed tarnished silver pubescence; flagellum as in figure 87; sternite VIII triangular, apex truncate; genitalia as in figure 85. Female.—Average length 28 mm; facial pubescence all dark. Names Scientific source: Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato, Pulawski, 2011, California Academy of Sciences Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist, Ascher and Pickering. Integrated Taxonomic Information System Sphex pensylvanicus Linnaeus (Figs. 15, 85, 87) Sphex pensylvanica Linnaeus, 1763, Centuria Insect Rar., p. 30. Holotype ♀, Pennsylvania (BMNH). Geographic distribution Distribution.—Sphex pensylvanicus occurs throughout most of the United States north to the forty-third parallel (fig. 15). Natural history The type, a well-preserved female in the Banksian collection at the British Museum, was examined by Bohart. Biology.—Reinhard (1929) described a colony nesting in the floor of a green-house. Prey consisted of Microcentrum laurifolium (Linnaeus) and Scudderia furcata Brunner (Tettigoniidae). Rau (1944) observed this wasp nesting in the floor of a tool house. The burrows contained a single cell in which were placed up to five Phaneroptera furcata Brunner (Tettigoniidae). Krombein (1955) reported a dozen wasps nesting together on a perpendicular bluff. Prey consisted of the tettigoniid Microcentrum retinerve (Burmeister). Friseh (1938) described the burrow as containing up to ten cells. Two to six Microcentrum rhombifolium (Saussure) were placed in each cell. Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation Hosts · map Family Scientific name @ source (records) Asclepiadaceae   Asclepias @ I_JSA (1) go to Discover Life's Facebook group Updated: 2024-04-25 11:08:37 gmt Discover Life | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation