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Species of wasp

Sphex lucae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Subfamily: Sphecinae
Genus: Sphex
Species: S. lucae
Binomial name
Sphex lucae
de Saussure, 1867
Synonyms
  • Sphex belfragei Cresson, 1873
  • Fernaldina lucae Bohart & Menke, 1963

Sphex lucae is a species of thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae. Sphex lucae is predominantly found in western North America, but specimens have also been collected in Georgia and Florida.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." Richard M. Bohart and Arnold S. Menke proposed moving this wasp to the monotypic genus Fernaldina. The main body of research on this wasp prior to 1965 regarded its propensity for communal roosting on plants.

References

  1. ^ "Sphex lucae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Sphex lucae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. "Sphex lucae species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  4. Pulawski, Wojciech J. "Catalog of Sphecidae". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  5. "Observations". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  6. ^ Cazier, Mont A.; Mortenson, Martin A. (January 1965). "Studies on the Bionomics of Sphecoid Wasps. VI. Fernaldina lucae (Hymenoptera : Sphecidae)". The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 41 (1). California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society: 34–43 – via Internet Archive.
  7. Fernald, Henry T. (1906). "The digger wasps of North America and the West Indies belonging to the subfamily Chlorioninae". Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Museum. pp. 365–367. hdl:2027/mdp.39076000786447. No. 1487 – via HathiTrust. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Sphex lucae


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