Sphex lucae
| Sphex lucae | |
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| File:Sphex lucae imported from iNaturalist photo 165511399 on 27 July 2024.jpg | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Sphecidae |
| Tribe: | Sphecini |
| Genus: | Sphex |
| Species: | S. lucae
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| Binomial name | |
| Sphex lucae de Saussure, 1867
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Sphex lucae is a species of thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae.[1][2][3][4] Sphex lucae is predominantly found in western North America,[5] but specimens have also been collected in Georgia and Florida.[6]: 34 Entomologist Henry T. Fernald described this wasp as: "Body rather slender; the head and thorax black; the abdomen black to red, the two colors variously mingled in different examples, the males being generally much darker than the females; wings varying from yellowish hyaline with a fuliginous tinge to deep fuliginous with a violet reflection; legs dark ferruginous to black."[7] Richard M. Bohart and Arnold S. Menke proposed moving this wasp to the monotypic genus Fernaldina.[6] The main body of research on this wasp prior to 1965 regarded its propensity for communal roosting on plants.[6]: 34
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