Sphex lucae

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Sphex lucae
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Tribe: Sphecini
Genus: Sphex
Species:
S. lucae
Binomial name
Sphex lucae
Synonyms[1]
  • Sphex belfragei Cresson, 1873
  • Bohart & Menke, 1963 Fernaldina lucae

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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